The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.Leo Tolstoy
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
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History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.
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