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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 21

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What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life

What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

Long, People, Childhood

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

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

Compassion, Sight, Giving

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.194, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

Men, Errors, Desire

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Men, Years, Two

Graf Leo Tolstoy (1960). “Lift Up Your Eyes: The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy”

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Peace, Illusion, Has Beens

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Mind, Wish, Dawn

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Family Happiness: Stories”, p.20, Harper Collins

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

Mean, Patriotism, Survival

"The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy".

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

Children, Father, Parenting

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

Teaching, Men, Needs

graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

Men, Example, Logic

graf Leo Tolstoy (2005). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and The Devil”, Hesperus Press

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

Love, Angel, Men

graf Leo Tolstoy (1902). “The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Art, Mean, Uniting

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.46, e-artnow

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Crush, Men, Animal

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

Powerful, Men, Expression

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

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

Wall, Regret, Wife

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

Inspirational, Boys, Self

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

Life, Ideas, Tears

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

One Love, Always Loved You, Persons

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.1243, Lulu Press, Inc

Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?

Friday, Morning, Pain

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

Break Up, Girl, Gone

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

Inspirational, Humility, Perfection

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Faith, Men, Doe

Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist.

Heart, Eye, Men

"To the Working People". Complete Works, translated by Leo Wiener, Volume 24, p. 129, 1905.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

Men, Mad, Mad Men

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.31, Penguin UK

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Stupid, Pride, Fishing

"Anna Karenina".

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