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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 32

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Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.

Should, Smallpox, Artificial

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.220, Penguin UK

Commit no act that is contrary to love.

Love, Commit, Contrary

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Math, Men, Logic

There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth.

Granted, One Thing

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.443, ReadHowYouWant.com

God is the same everywhere.

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman”, p.905, Simon and Schuster

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

Men, Humanity, Details

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.134, ReadHowYouWant.com

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

Latin, Wish, Firsts

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Here I Am, Forget, Ends

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Wish, Felt

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.92, Oxford Paperbacks

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

Life, Fall, Kissing

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Art, Children, Thinking

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

Sorry, Thinking, People

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

Art, Mean, Feelings

Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

People, Weakness, Anna

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.97, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Military, Issues, People

Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.647, Penguin

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

Lying, Lines, Psychological

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.105, e-artnow

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Done, Should, Ought

Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Leo Tolstoy's 5 Greatest Novellas Annotated”, p.99, Bottletree Books LLC

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts" "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Life, Beautiful, Wise

A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.

Mistake, Moving, Player

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

Beautiful, Mom, Lovely

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

Falling In Love, Fall, Weakness

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.1610, e-artnow

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Wise, Ideas, Century

She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

Real, Self, Hands

"Anna Karenina".

Enough or not...it will have to do

Enough

graf Leo Tolstoy (1914). “Anna Karénina: In Eight Parts”

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Action, Opinion, Theory

Robert Coles, George Eliot, George Orwell, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope (2007). “Political Leadership: Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life”, p.120, Modern Library

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