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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Leo Tolstoy
Truth, Lying, Science
"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Leo Tolstoy
Science, Order, Fragments
Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.442, Vintage

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 to the region of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy
Art, Knowledge, Science
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.212, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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