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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 5

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There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

Believe, Two, People

graf Leo Tolstoy (1961). “A Confession: The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe”

The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.

Christian, Humility, Opposites

Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.

Joy, Way, Limitless

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking.

Morning, Bed, Waking

Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art, Men, Universal Life

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.50, e-artnow

Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

Issues, Prejudice, Today

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Writing, Stories, Sides

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Real, Ideas, People

History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true.

Would Be, Wonderful, Ifs

Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

People, Wish, Doe

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Love Is, God Is Love

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.29, Xist Publishing

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives

Inspirational, People, Meals

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love, Enemy, Divine

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.921, Vintage

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Queens, Discipline, Nonsense

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

Inspirational, People, Soul

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

Men, Wife, Men And Women

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Way, Knows

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Meaning Of Life

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Beautiful, Teaching, Personality

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

Eye, Men, Poverty

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.86, 1909.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Pain, Suffering, Desire

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Two, Shadow Of Death, Valleys

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Love, Beautiful, Hero

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.210, Everyman's Library

Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy

Heart, Joy, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

Important, Moments, Persons

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 206, 1909.

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