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“Faith is the force of life.”

Book:A Confession and Other Religious Writings

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A Confession and Other Religious Writings

This book compiles a selection of religious-themed essays and confessional pieces, exploring various spiritual and religious themes. more

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.”

Mind Humans Philosophy Facts Religion Courses Path Circumstances Vain Servant Meaning Of Life Human Mind Conception Beaten Arbiter Science And Philosophy Beaten Path

Book:My Religion

Source: My Religion

“A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.”

Ends Benefits Occasions Lectures Numb

Author:John Gould

“Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.”

Men Age Women Golden Golden Age Impressionable

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Selfishness is blind.”

Blind Selfishness

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“Arrogance really comes from insecurity, and in the end our feeling that we are bigger than others is really the flip side of our feeling that we are smaller than others.”

Ends Feelings Sides Bigger Arrogance Insecurity Flip

Author:Desmond Tutu

“An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.”

Support Monarchy Aristocracy

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.”

People Play Reading England Compare Repeats Pitiful

Book:The Corsican

Source: The Corsican

“All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.”

Wish Prayer Lord Principles Like You Fine Morality Bible Sentences Repeats Creeds Verses Absurdity Sublime Commonplace Assemblage

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

Nations Education Four Advice Thousand Newspapers Journalist Hostile Giver Tutor Bayonets

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.”

Determination Energetic True Wisdom

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

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