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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 17

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

Art, Mean, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

If you want to be happy, be happy.

Want, Want To Be Happy, Ifs

"Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

Stupid, Long, Pessimistic

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Love, Mean, Return

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.1512, Simon and Schuster

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

Generations, Mormonism, World

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

School, Three, Needed

"Anna Karenina".

What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?

Stars, Doubt, Earth

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Past, Soul, Done

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.3, 1909.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

Past, Rivers, Water

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

Religious, Brother, Men

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Art, Food, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

Religious, Taken, Acceptance

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.

Christian, Men, Europe

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.2591, e-artnow

The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

Rich, Compassionate

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.89, 1909.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Christian, Men, Wish

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.7186, e-artnow

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Art, Knowledge, Science

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.212, BIG BYTE BOOKS

It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

Book, Heart, Animal

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

Greatness, Men, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1125, First Avenue Editions

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

Dream, Country, Teaching

"Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

People, Historical, Causes

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

Resurrection, Christ, Immortality

"My Religion". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 8, 1884.

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

Movement, Social, Social Movements

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Perfection, Levels, Pauses

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

Pride, Stupidity, Dishonesty

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Doctors, Blood, Medicine

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1102, Vintage

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