Leo Tolstoy Quotes About Well Being

Quotes about: Well Being

• Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Mean, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Last Steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy”, p.98, Penguin UK

• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  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.

• In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Art, Lying

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.612, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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