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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 30

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Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

Wall, Home, Heart

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.218, Leo Tolstoy

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Meaning Of Life, Circumstances, Science And Religion

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “My Religion”, p.105, The Floating Press

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

Running, Wife, Wish

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.157, Oxford University Press, USA

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

Art, Great Work, Works Of Art

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.8083, e-artnow

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

Heart, Men, Depth

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.15, Courier Corporation

It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

People, Rude, Feelings

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

Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

Art, Violence, Causes

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.222, BIG BYTE BOOKS

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.

Law, Evil, World

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Division Of Labor, Sloth, Justification

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.79, 1909.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

Dream, Spring, Desire

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.9, Oxford University Press, USA

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

Art, Philosophy, Men

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.1257, e-artnow

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Suffering, Asks, One Thing

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

Passion, Men, Animal

Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

Thinking, Giving, Despair

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.230, e-artnow

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

Men, Morality, Results

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Patriotism, Belief, Spontaneous

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.7188, e-artnow

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Suffering, Disappear, Command

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.121, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

Thinking, Think Of You, I Can

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

Men, Knowing God, Draws

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2007). “Twenty-Three Tales”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Appreciation, Art, Understanding

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.

Despair, Acting, Answers

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Edition”, p.460, ReadHowYouWant.com

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Men, Law, Skills

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace”, p.126, Xist Publishing

Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

Heart, Men, Dying

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.70, Lulu.com

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

Stones, Bread, Raises

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

Feelings, Delight, Facts

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