Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 29

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• Children: a torment and nothing more.

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  Children, Torment

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• Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

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  Men, Needs, Satisfaction

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• Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

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  Thinking, Important, Should

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Given

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1904). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy ...”

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• Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance.

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  Men, Goal, Doe

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• … for nightinggales - we know - can’t live on fairytales.

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  Fairytale, Knows

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• Our body is a machine for living.

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  Health, Body, Machines

  War and Peace bk. 10, ch. 29 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude

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• It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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  Telling The Truth, Difficult

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.345, e-artnow

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• The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

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  Life Changing, Two, May

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.5496, Delphi Classics

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• Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

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  Dream, Spring, Desire

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.9, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

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  Thinking, Giving, Despair

  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.230, e-artnow

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• I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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  Suffering, Asks, One Thing

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• Love those you hate you.

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  Hate, Hate You

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• Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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  Art, Mean, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.12, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.

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  War, Should Have, Games

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• The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

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  Real, Heart, Men

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• A holy spirit lives within you.

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  Holiness, Spirit, Holy

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this.

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  Art, Violence, Causes

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)”, p.222, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

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  Art, Men, People

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• It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

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  People, Rude, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels.

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  Lying, Physicians, Comfort

  War and Peace Pt 9, Ch. 16

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• At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

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  Life Changing, Past, People

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.102, Vintage

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• The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.

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  Military, Army, Chiefs

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.651, e-artnow

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• Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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  Wall, Home, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.218, Leo Tolstoy

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• The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

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  Mistake, Blood, People

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