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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 8

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To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Love, Long, Burning

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.71, Courier Corporation

God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

Logical Reasoning, Submission, Understood

A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Men, Gambling, Gentleman

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

Ifs

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Liars, Changing Your Life, Deceiver

Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Anna Karenina”, p.359, Penguin UK

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Evil, Way, Ends

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

War, People, Evil

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

Government, Institutions, Immoral

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.8382, e-artnow

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Rewards, Causes, Goodness

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.1830, e-artnow

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.348, Vintage

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Eye, Impossible, Inevitable

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1144, Random House

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

Children, Struggle, Law

"The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy".

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

Women, World, Turns

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

Doe, Needs, Mates

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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.1092, e-artnow

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Life, Motivational, Patience

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

Love, Heart, Thinking

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.189, e-artnow

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Conceited, Understanding, Conceit

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

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

Keys, Trying, Mystery

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Inspirational, Funny, Family

Anna Karenina pt. 1, ch. 1 (1875 - 1877) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude) See Susan Cheever 1

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

Advice, First Impression, Firsts

R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 1: 1847-1894”, p.48, Faber & Faber

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

"Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

Life, Reason, Possibility

"War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman".

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

Men, Firsts, Recognition

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Love, Enemy, Needs

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

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