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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 31

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At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of

At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.

Atheist, Growing Up, Men

Is it possible to say what one really feels?

Feels, Wisest

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1899). “The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoi”

We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us.

Conscious, Manifestation, Acknowledge

Entry in Tolstoy's Diary, www.linguadex.com. November 01, 1910.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Children, Men, Sometimes

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.241, Courier Corporation

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Art, Book, Mountain

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

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Men, Numbers, People

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

Littles, Trouble, Grudge

"Collected Shorter Fiction". vol. 2,

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Violence, Renounce, Obliged

The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.

Years, Class, People

"What is to be done?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 262, 1899.

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Law, World, Divinity

Leo Tolstoy (graf), Nathan Haskell Dole (1899). “The complete works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.

People, Feelings, Age

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

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

Spiritual, Indifferent, Realms

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.796, e-artnow

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Understanding, Humanity, Obscure

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

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

Funny, Death, Dying

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Culture, Motive, Conditions

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Attitude, Men, Expectations

graf Leo Tolstoy (1949). “Childhood, Boyhood and Youth”

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

Political Opinions, Views, Coats

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.8, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Philosophy, Mind, Religion

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

I don’t count life as life without love

Life Without Love, Without Love

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.457, ReadHowYouWant.com

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

Eye, Helping, Where You Are

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.132, Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

People, History, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

Mean, Heart, Men

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

Art, Mean, Expression

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

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

Goal, Energy, Force

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Men, Clothes, Unhappy

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