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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 29

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Children: a torment and nothing more.

Children: a torment and nothing more.

Children, Torment

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Men, Needs, Satisfaction

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

Thinking, Important, Should

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Teacher, Teaching, Given

graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy ...”

Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

Men, Goal, Doe

… for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

Fairytale, Knows

Our body is a machine for living.

Health, Body, Machines

War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

Art, Men, People

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

Military, Army, Chiefs

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.651, e-artnow

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Life Changing, Past, People

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Life Changing, Two, May

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.

Art, Real, Mean

Love those you hate you.

Hate, Hate You

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

Mistake, Blood, People

This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

Lying, Physicians, Comfort

War and Peace Pt 9, Ch. 16

It is very difficult to tell the truth.

Telling The Truth, Difficult

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.345, e-artnow

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Beauty, Pleasure, Supplies

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.55, e-artnow

Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position".

Brother, Pride, People

It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

War, Should Have, Games

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

Lying, Love You, Men

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Art, Mean, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.12, BIG BYTE BOOKS

A holy spirit lives within you.

Holiness, Spirit, Holy

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Inspirational, Art, Sacrifice

graf Leo Tolstoy (1946). “What is Art?: And Essays on Art”

And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

Dinner, Cigar, Habit

The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

Real, Heart, Men

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