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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 10

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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Truth, Honesty, People

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

Religious, Mean, People

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

Animal, Men, Steps

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Pride, Order, Opposites

"The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Inspirational, Karma, Men

Where there is love, there is God also.

Love, Inspirational Love, Amazing Love

"Tolstoi for the Young".

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Gold, Truth Is, Bigger

R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910”, p.178, Faber & Faber

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

Government, Citizens, Truth Is

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.2, Leo Tolstoy

You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!

War, Special, Storm

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.866, 谷月社

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

World, Want, Changing The World

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

Inspirational, Length Of Life, Soul

"A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, 1903 - 1910.

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.

Spiritual, Art, Husband

It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

"A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Life, Change, Deep Thought

graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. "To establish Anarchy." "Anarchy will be instituted." But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power.

Thinking, Order, People

graf Leo Tolstoy (1915). “Social Evils and Their Remedy”

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Sleep, Battle, Spares

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.64, Vintage

The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

Women, Age, Golden

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Inspirational, Karma, Peace

"The Law of Love and the Law of Violence". Treatise by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

Writing, Rewriting, I Can

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Hero, Forgotten, Villain

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Two, Twenties, Splits

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Suffering, Morality, Wells

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1, Vintage

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Sad, Joy, Sorrow

'War and Peace' (1868-9) bk. 15, ch. 1

Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Life, Christian, People

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