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Leo Tolstoy quotes about understanding

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Human science fragments everything in order to understand it,..."
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. Leo Tolstoy
We are forced to fall back on fatalism as an explanation of irrational events (that is to say, events the reasonableness of which we do not understand). Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important. Leo Tolstoy
Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk to me, not of himself or me, but of something else, as though it mattered what happened outside us. Only much later I began to have some slight understanding of his cares and to be interested in them. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be..."
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. Leo Tolstoy

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