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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 33

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Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Witty, Powerful, Stupid

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

Lying, Essence, Answers

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.211, Penguin UK

Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

Vengeance, Mines

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.818, Oxford Paperbacks

Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved.

Happy Love, Happiness Love, Moments

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.370, Modern Library

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

Next, Arise, Halt

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320

Distance, Eye, Men

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Men, Superstitions, Scientist

People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another.

Teaching, Men, Order

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Long, Deceit, Denial

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Sex, Men, Epidemics

Quoted in Maxim Gorky, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1920)

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Strong, People, Feels

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.209, Vintage

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

Imagination, Mind, World

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.312, Oxford University Press, USA

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Death, Wells, Dies

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Lying, Law, Way

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Peace, War, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Lying, Men, Littles

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1929). “Essays, letters, miscellanies (2 v. in 1)”

The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous.

Beautiful, Men, Roles

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.219, e-artnow

Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.

Giving, Deeds, Alms

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 83, 1909.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Home, Liberty, Anarchy

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

Inspirational, People, Waiting

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Art, Important, Language

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

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.

Ordinary, Injustice

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Men, Errors, Together

graf Leo Tolstoy (1929). “My confession; My religion; The Gospel in brief”

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

Circles, Reason Why, Conservative

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.37, Penguin UK

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