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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

Leo Tolstoy
Growing Up, Struggle, Men

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Leo Tolstoy
Children, Struggle, Law
"The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Leo Tolstoy
Rain, Struggle, Mean
Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Walk in the light while ye have light; Thoughts and aphorisims; Letters; Miscellanies”

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

Leo Tolstoy
Struggle, Forgive Me, Feelings
Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.760, Oxford Paperbacks

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

Leo Tolstoy
Struggle, Past, Men
Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.620, e-artnow

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