Quotes - Mimsy (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 41

#1

“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#2

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: honesty, independent-thought

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#3

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

tags: argument, art

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#4

“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#5

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?

tags: exploitation, greed, privilege

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#6

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational

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#7

“To get rid of an enemy one must love him. ”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#8

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: historians

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#9

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#10

“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#11

“Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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#12

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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#13

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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#14

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

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#15

“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-deception

698 likes

#16

“Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.”
― Greg Evans

tags: anger, eternity, lies

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#17

“When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

tags: fibbing, lies

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#18

“Lying is a thriving vocation.”
― Susanna Centlivre

tags: lies, lying, medieval

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#19

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#20

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

11827 likes

#21

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

4996 likes

#22

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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#23

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

tags: humor, poetry

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#24

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes

3786 likes

#25

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

6751 likes

#26

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#27

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

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