Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 9

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• One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Karma, Men

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• Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

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  Art, People, Soul

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries: 1895-1910”

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• How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

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  Suffering, Morality, Wells

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1, Vintage

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

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  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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

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

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  Men, Firsts, Recognition

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

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  Love, Enemy, Needs

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

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• Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

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  Conceited, Understanding, Conceit

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

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

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  Life, Reason, Possibility

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

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• A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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  Leader, Ships, Wave

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• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

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  Clever, Stupid, Doe

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.100, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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  Philosophical, Animal, Thinking

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• For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

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  Life Is, Reason, Human Life

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1915). “War & Peace: The French at Moscow”

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• The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

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  Rain, Struggle, Mean

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1905). “The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Walk in the light while ye have light; Thoughts and aphorisims; Letters; Miscellanies”

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• By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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  Art, Mean, Feelings

  "What Is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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• Life is fragile and absurd.

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  Life Is, Life Is Fragile, Absurd

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• The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience.

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  Son, Men, Feelings

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

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• There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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  Men, Thinking, Our World

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

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  Our Actions, Mystery, Accord

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• In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

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  True Life, Different, Blasphemy

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 209, 1909.

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• Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

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  Peace, Men, Ubuntu

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• Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

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  Life And Death, Evil, Joy

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1921). “A Confession: And, What I Believe”

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• Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

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  Life, Christian, People

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• I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

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  Self Control, Mentor

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Collected Shorter Fiction, vol. 1”, p.934, Everyman's Library

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• The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.

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  Rich, Compassionate

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.89, 1909.

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• The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

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  Teaching, Godly, Law

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.273, Penguin UK

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