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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 19

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In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

Pride, Men, Order

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Over You, Asking, Dies

Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things, not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Love, Christian, Order

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1971). “The law of love and the law of violence”

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

Religious, Art, Lying

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.612, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Tragedy, Needs, Platonic Love

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

Infinite Time, Space, Matter

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.362, ReadHowYouWant.com

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

Needs, Lovers, Asks

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina”, p.138, Xist Publishing

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Life, Real, Sleep

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession”, p.215, W. W. Norton & Company

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Mean, Hands, Revolution

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.

World, Spirit, Disappear

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.388, Vintage

Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is all the very nature of the soul. Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because of love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.

Love, Mean, Hatred

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

Life, Powerful, Simple

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

Government, Evil, Anarchy

The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.

Spiritual, Artist, Numbers

Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

Men, Land, Wish

graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Men, Evil, Reform

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.491, Modern Library

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

Pain, Exercise, Injury

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2326, Delphi Classics

Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.

God, Men, Thinking

graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

Understanding, Feelings, Able

"The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1890.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Life, Love Is, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.926, Everyman's Library

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Civilization, Source, Aim

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.53, Leo Tolstoy

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

Rain, Book, Reading

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

Dream, Memories, Past

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Light, No Fear, Fear Of Death

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.122, Lulu.com

Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.

Fall, Boys, Apples

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