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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 25

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

War, Play, Things In Life

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.886, Modern Library

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

God, Prayer, Personality

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1968). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: My religion. On life. Thoughts of God. On the meaning of life”

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

Mean, Patriotic, Men

graf Leo Tolstoy (1903). “Essays and Letters /by Leo Tolstoy ; Translated by Aylmer Maude”

Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?

Despair, Common, Desperation

"Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy, pt. I, ch. 5, 1882.

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Kings, Accomplishment, Humanity

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2010). “War and Peace Vol. 3 & 4”, Wildside Press LLC

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

God, Men, Deeds And Words

Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

Heart, Eye, Said

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.120, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Heart, Sorrow, Want

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2127, Delphi Classics

And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.

Book, Light, Evil

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.656, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

Men, Would Be, Tissues

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1949*). “War and peace: a novel”

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Men, Mind, May

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}

Mean, Too Much, Reason

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Humanity, Earth, Individual

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

Years, Thought Provoking, Mind

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Thinking, Matter, Moments

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1978). “Anna Karenina”

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

Power, Expression, Execution

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.1806, Leo Tolstoy

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.

Husband, Agreement, Years

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.1766, e-artnow

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

Kind, Study, Objects

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.162, Oxford Paperbacks

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

Thinking, People, Mind

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!

Hair, Gone

"War and Peace: Top 100 Classic Novels".

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

Prayer, Tools, World

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

Childhood, Quiet, Candor

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Truth, Greatness, Simplicity

Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel”

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Broken Heart, Trying, Together

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.2184, Delphi Classics

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered.

Peace, Simple, Law

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.248, Penguin UK

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