Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Darkness Quotes , Clue Quotes

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Peace Quotes

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Ideas Quotes

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Movement Quotes , Social Quotes

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Gold Quotes , Truth Is Quotes

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Believe 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Path Quotes , Opinion 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Maturity Quotes , Views Quotes

I prefer a good pair of boots to Shakespeare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Boots Quotes

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Karma Quotes

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Long Quotes , People Quotes

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Change Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Reading Quotes , Circles Quotes

Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Physicians Quotes

Read less, study less, but think more

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Thinking Quotes

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Real Quotes

But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Love You Quotes