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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 20

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The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

Long, People, Mind Blowing

"What is the Jew?" by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.

Without Greek studies there is no education.

Greek, Study

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

Thinking, Remembers Everything, Goes On

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.521, Vintage

But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back.

Eye, Light, Hands

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

Flower, Heart, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2017). “Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.495, Clap Publishing, LLC.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

Misery

"Fictional character: Count Vronsky". "Anna Karenina", (I), www.imdb.com. 20112.

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

Art, Ideas, Imagination

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.432, eKitap Projesi

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Fever, Way, Should

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.137, Oxford Paperbacks

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

Love, Christian, War

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.

Love, Inspirational, People

"Tales from Tolstoi".

'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.

Philosophical, Compassion, Animal

Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it.

Sacrifice, Vanity, Ease

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.211, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to be made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen. So you despise the activity of public service because you want things always to correspond to their aim, and that doesn't happen. You also want the activity of the individual man always to have an aim, that love and family life always be one. And that doesn't happen. All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Character, Men, Light

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Wish, Ends

"Fictional character: Countess Vronsky". "Anna Karenina", 2012.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Violence, Authority, Bases

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.185, eKitap Projesi

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Flower, Men, Looks

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Acquisition, Labor

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

Sacrifice, Movement, Chance

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.50, Oxford University Press, USA

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

Eye, Meaning Of Life, World

Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina (The Illustrated Edition): 40 original pictures from the first book with illustrations in 1913”, p.428, CCEL

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Past, Giving, Masters

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.939, Xist Publishing

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

Home, Support You, Accountability

graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

Brother, Honesty, Heart

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.299, e-artnow

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Horror, I Have Learned, Whole

Count Leo Tolstoy (1999). “Tolstoy: Tales of Courage and Conflict”, p.481, Rowman & Littlefield

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

Men, Order, Alive

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1201, Vintage

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.

Two, People, Use

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Journal of Leo Tolstoi 1895~1899 (Abridged)”, p.170, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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