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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 11

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It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

Mistake, Men, Favour

School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.

Teacher, Children, School

graf Leo Tolstoy (1967). “Tolstoy on Education”

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Life, Beauty, Beautiful

'The Kreutzer Sonata' 5 (translated by Maude)

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Laughter, Real, Sleep

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “LEO TOLSTOY – The Ultimate Short Stories Collection: 120+ Titles in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Kreutzer Sonata, The Forged Coupon, Hadji Murad, Alyosha the Pot, Master and Man, Father Sergius, Diary of a Lunatic, The Cossacks, My Dream, The Young Tsar, Fables and Stories for Children...”, p.135, e-artnow

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

World, Has Beens

But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe.

Sheep, Ideas, Safe

Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.365, Penguin

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Dream, Creepy, Wake Up

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.551, Courier Corporation

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

Mean, Men, Class

graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Men, Political, Doe

graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

Ignorance, Men, Effort

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Doubt, Sin, Principal

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.527, Modern Library

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.

Love, Beautiful, Believe

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.20, Courier Corporation

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

Smile, Fear, Great Men

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Discovery, Nothing New

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Mistake, Thinking, Order

"The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Sarcastic, Style, Literature

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Happiness, Love Is, People

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.

Body, Building, Destruction

graf Leo Tolstoy (1958). “An Anthology”

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand

Inspirational, Children, Clever

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Wisdom, Children, Hypocrite

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.334, Leo Tolstoy

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Self Control, Mentor

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.934, Everyman's Library

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

Change, Men, Usual

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Blood, Sauce, Looks

"War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

Animal, Soul, Sides

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

Life, Blessed, Suffering

"War and Peace". Novel by Leo Tolstoy. Book 14, Chapter 15, 1867.

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