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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 7

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it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

Blame, Persons, Hard

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.1525, e-artnow

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

Inspirational, People, Entertainment

"A Calendar of Wisdom". Book by Leo Tolstoy (1910). Translated by P. Sekirin, 1997.

Faith is the force of life.

Faith, Force

Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.84, Penguin UK

When joy disappears, look for your mistake

Inspirational, Mistake, Joy

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

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

Ambition, Mean, Patriotism

All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.

Girl, Class, Two

If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

Faith, Believe, Facts

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Giving, Office

Graf Leo Tolstoy (1960). “Lift Up Your Eyes: The Religious Writings of Leo Tolstoy”

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

Useless, Mediocre, Knows

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

Girl, Nice, Looks

Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.227, Oxford University Press, USA

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

People, Insanity, Deranged

Leo Tolstoy, T. C. B. Cook (2004). “The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

Writing, Law, Easy

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.428, Vintage

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

Men, Names, Church

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”

And where love ends, hate begins

Hate, Ends

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.2053, ReadHowYouWant.com

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Morning, Inspiration, Writing

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.351, e-artnow

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

Purpose, Life Is, Goodness

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music, Emotion, Shorthand

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

Giving, Important, Answers

"Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy". Book by Lynda Walsh, p. 90, 2013.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

Differences, Women Bashing, Men Bashing

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

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

Vegetarianism, Enlightenment, Meat

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Inspirational, Positive, Attitude

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Love, Funny, Wedding

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

Express Yourself, Should, I Can

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Anniversary, Goal, Joy

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