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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 16

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You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

Pain, Love You, Order

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.522, Oxford Paperbacks

The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust.

Love, Stupid, Army

War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 11 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.

Men, Yesterday, Majority

graf Leo Tolstoy (1913). “Essays, letters, misc. (General articles ; Famine articles ; The Dukhobors)”

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

Energy

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.1721, e-artnow

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Science, Order, Fragments

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.442, Vintage

Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

Stars, Sky, Depth

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1020, Vintage

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

Grief, Joy, Soul

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.932, Xist Publishing

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

Forget, States, My Own

"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 121, September 26, 1985.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Two, People, Critics

Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

Passion, Ambition, Pride

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling.

Art, Men, Feelings

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.175, e-artnow

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Love, Age, Always Be Happy

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1429, e-artnow

As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.

Long, House, Slaughter

Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Leo Tolstoy”

People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

Rivers, Water, People

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Evil, Want, Causes

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

Lying, Heart, Essence

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Art, Lying, Might

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.159, Leo Tolstoy

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

Writing, Pieces, Flesh

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Use, Praying, Judgment

God gave the day, God gave the strength.

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.763, ReadHowYouWant.com

One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.

Nature, People, Quality

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Smallpox, Ought

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.119, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

If you want to be happy, just be.

Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

Men, Law, Culture

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

Art, Amusement, Matter

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.221, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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