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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 6

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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Inspirational, Sorry, Mean

What Then Must We Do? ch. 16 (1886) (translation by Aylmer Maude)

We're asleep until we love.

Falling In Love, Fall

"War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky".

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Change, Life Changing, True Life

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Truth, Lying, Science

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

Money, Freedom, Liberty

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Grief, Love You, Grieving

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1902). “Complete works”

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

God, Knowing God, Knows

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.

Spiritual, Men, Vegetarianism

Every heart has its own skeletons.

Heart, Skeletons

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.124, Xist Publishing

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Peace, War, Patriotism

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

Marriage, Selfish, Men

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

Kingdoms, Helping, Significance

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Inspirational, Solitude, Desire

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

Meaning Of Life, World, Way

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

Doubt, Moments

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

Philosophical, Writing, Practice

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

Winning, Battle

graf Leo Tolstoy (1912). “The Forged Coupon: And Other Stories”

Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

Lying, Passion, Government

Passage written in 1908 for for 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence'. "Equality in Liberty and Justice". Book by Antony Flew, p. 89, 2001.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Inspirational, Stupid, Men

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

Everything depends on upbringing.

Parenting, Inspire, Depends

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.42, Vintage

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Inspirational, Life, Way

"Anna Karenina".

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Forgiveness, Forgiving, Position

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.111, Modern Library

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Stories, Unhappiness, Allegory

A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.

Growing Up, Struggle, Men

Energy is based on love.

Energy

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.798, e-artnow

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