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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives Picture Quote #1

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment Picture Quote #1

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us Picture Quote #1

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone’s will and the execution of that will by others Picture Quote #1

Condemn me if you choose I do that myself, but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is Picture Quote #1

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life Picture Quote #1

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Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man’s soul Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him Picture Quote #1

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position Picture Quote #1

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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat Picture Quote #1

Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not Picture Quote #1

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere Picture Quote #1

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Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same Picture Quote #1

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it Picture Quote #1

$A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction Picture Quote #1$

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen Picture Quote #1

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible Picture Quote #1

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom Picture Quote #1

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There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife Picture Quote #1

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion Picture Quote #1

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul Picture Quote #1

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars Picture Quote #1

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone’s will and the execution of that will by others (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Condemn me if you choose I do that myself, but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Man’s mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man’s soul (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) 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 (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) 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 (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) 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 (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) 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 (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) There is trouble with a wife, but it’s even worse with a woman who is not a wife (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death (Leo Tolstoy Quotes) 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 (Leo Tolstoy Quotes)

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