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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 18

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Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

Sex, Women, Social

graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

Suicide, Father, Suicidal

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.557, ReadHowYouWant.com

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

Suicide, Writing, Suicidal

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Wit, Satisfied, Position

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.226, e-artnow

Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

Mean, Government, Humanity

And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

Feet, Looks, Way

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1960). “What Is Art?”, MacMillan Publishing Company

In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Couple, Husband, Agreement

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.1807, BookCaps Study Guides

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

Kindness, Real, Believe

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

Government, Law, Divine Right

Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

People, Rude, Support

graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Intelligent, Boys, Years

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

Confidence, Clever, Stupid

"War and Peace".

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

War, Moving, Thinking

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

Marriage, Sex, Men

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Ends, Terrible

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.86, Vintage

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Men, Creation, Explaining

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.479, e-artnow

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Men, Humanity, Meaning Of Life

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You”, p.269, Xist Publishing

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

Believe, Religion, Three

"Resurrection: What is Religion?".

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

Stress, World, Amusement

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.81, 1909.

Happy people have no history.

People, History, Happy People

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.743, Yale University Press

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Would Be, Sometimes, Knows

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

Writing, Play, People

Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.

Eye, Order, Movement

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.

Hands, People, Be You

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.121, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

Spiritual, Hurt, Eye

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1075, Random House

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