Leo Tolstoy Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.
He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Ah, how good! How nice! he said to himself, when he remembered that his wife and the French were no more.
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.
You owe forty-three thousand, Count,' said Dolokhov, and stretching himself he rose from the table. 'One does get tired sitting so long,' he added.
But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy
He looked intently and inquiringly into his friend's eyes, evidently trying in vain to find the answer to some question.
Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division or loving accord between husband and wife.
I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work.
Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.
Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new, insoluble question presented itself - death.
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
I've got four sons in the army, but I'm not crying about it. It's all in God's hands: you may die in your bed, or God may spare you in battle,
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love.
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends
He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.
Therein is the whole business of one's life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.
I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.
If people tell you that
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe
them. Real Life is found only in the present.
He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.
You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold
In order not to give myself up to the desire to kill him on the spot, I felt compelled to treat him cordially.
We must live. We must love. And we must believe that there's more to it all than our lives on this scrap of earth.
The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.