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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 15

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Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

Honest, Honest Work, Mansions

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.82, 1909.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Happy Marriage, Knows

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.220, Penguin UK

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

Happiness, Ideas, Knows

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

World, Faces

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.130, Vintage

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

Life, Happiness, Kind

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Family Happiness and Other Stories”, p.64, Courier Corporation

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

Giving, Would Be, Speak

"The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Anna Karénina".

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

Soul, Changing Your Life, Unnoticed

How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

God, Heart, Light

Leo Tolstoy (graf), Leon Stilman (1979). “Last diaries”, Ayer Co Pub

Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

War, Men, Thinking

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

Christian, Religious, Lying

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.

Religious, People, Religion

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Nature, Heart, Animal

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.7193, e-artnow

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

Faith, Thinking, People

When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

Women, Feet, Coffins

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Unhappy, Way, Happy Family

"Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1875 - 1877; 1878.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

God, Believe, Soul

graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1847-1894”, Scribner

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Inspirational, Art, Design

'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

Only those live who do good.

Life

graf Leo Tolstoy (1887). “My Confession: And, The Spirit of Christ's Teaching”, New York, T. Y. Crowell [c1887]

How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!

Lying, Deceit, Sin

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.117, Xist Publishing

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

Religious, Teaching, Men

"Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 1, 1882.

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions.

Would Be, Rewards, Fruit

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Peace, If You Love Me, Ifs

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.222, Penguin UK

Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

Art, Mean, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy”, p.98, Penguin UK

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Simple, Ordinary, Terrible

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2006). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich: Easyread Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

People, Feelings, Wish

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