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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 14

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Power, Men, Order

There are as many loves as there are hearts.

Heart

People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

Art, Lying, People

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Thinking, Evil, People

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

Men, Born, Has Beens

graf Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (1934). “The Works of Leo Tolstoy ...: On life and essays on religion, tr. by Aylmer Maude”

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.

Art, People, Characteristics

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

Peace, Passion, Vegetarian Diet

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Music, Men, Jazz

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

Russia, Growth, Suffering

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Men, Body, Action

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1208, Vintage

Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.

Hurt, Here I Am, Trying

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

War, Voice, Trying

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.

Influence, Feels, Seems

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.19, Oxford University Press, USA

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

Lying, Men, Thinking

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “The Resurrection: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.274, 谷月社

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Knowing, Purpose, Chance

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

Inspirational, Thinking, Enough

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

Mind, Atheism, Praying

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

Stories

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Talking, People, Human Nature

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

Love, Life, World

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.

Struggle, Forgive Me, Feelings

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.760, Oxford Paperbacks

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Inspirational, Memories, Real

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself, are not God, but that God is the one existing, incomparable good, the beginning of everything.

God, Son, World

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

Truth, Lying, Discovery

"Anna Karenina".

The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Art, Love Life, Problem

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