Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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Topic

Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth Change Progress

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Three Methods of Reform

Medium

Essay

Language

Russian

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

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"What's this? am I falling? my legs are giving way under me," he thought, and fell on his back. He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the French soldiers with the artilleryman was ending, and eager to know whether the red-haired artilleryman was killed or not, whether the cannons had been taken or saved. But he saw nothing of all that, Above him there was nothing but the sky-the lofty sky, not clear, but still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds creeping quietly over it.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace

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Topic
Dying Moment of death

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
War and Peace
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Война и миръ [War and Peace]." The Russian Messenger, 1865-1867. Serial.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Another quote from the 1900s

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Henri Poincaré

Science and Hypothesis

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Topic
Critical thinking Doubt and skepticism Credulity

Author

Henri Poincaré
Source
Science and Hypothesis
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
French
Time
1902 1900s 20th century
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Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. La science et l'hypothese [Science and Hypothesis]. Flammarion, 1902, introduction.

Current Citation

Poincare, Henri. Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text, translated by Melanie Frappier, Andrea Smith and David J. Stump, edited by Melanie Frappier and David J. Stump. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, preface.

Another quote about Progress

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

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Topic
Moral progress Social progress Progress
Speaker
Theodore Parker
Source
Ten Sermons of Religion
Medium
Sermon
Language
English
Time
1853 1850s 19th century
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Citation

Parker, Theodore. "Of Justice and the Conscience." Ten Sermons of Religion. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company/New York: Charles S. Francis and Company, 1853.

Another quote originally in Russian

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Disenchanted world

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1879 1870s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.