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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 13

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A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Work, Writing, Soul

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Knows

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Vegetarianism, Humanitarianism

Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

People, Judging, Given

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.383, Vintage

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Health, Machines, Goes On

War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you.

Fall, Expectations, Effort

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.82, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Fear, Soul, Filled

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

Inspirational, Life, God

Entry in Tolstoy's Diary, www.linguadex.com. November 01, 1910.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Peace, War, Independent

graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “Essays, letters, miscellanies”

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

Love Life, Mean, Suffering

"War and Peace/ Crazy Credits". www.imdb.com. 1956.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Wanted, Stills, Knows

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Thinking, Hunting, Goes On

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.326, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

Epic Poems, Usual, Ruts

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1256, Wizio Publishing

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Life, Men, Names

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WHAT IS ART? & WHEREIN IS TRUTH IN ART? (Meditations on Aesthetics & Literature): On the Significance of Science and Art, Shakespeare and the Drama, The Works of Guy De Maupassant, A. Stockham'sTokology, Amiel's Diary, S. T. Seménov's Peasant Stories, Stop and Think!...”, p.351, e-artnow

Kings are the slaves of history.

Kings, History, Historical

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

Life, Death, Animal

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Intelligent, Intelligence, Boring

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Funny, Humor, History

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Food, Health, Animal

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

Men, Able, Meaning Of Life

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “A Confession: Easyread Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.

Men, Religion, Spirit

"Resurrection: A Novel".

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Passion, Men, Habit

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.1442, e-artnow

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Happiness, Believe, Order

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.467, Random House

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

Moving, Love Life, Self

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