Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Lying Quotes

Anything is better than lies and deceit!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Lying 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life Changing Quotes , Past Quotes

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Use Quotes , Praying Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes

I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Love Quotes , Heart Quotes

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Wicked Quotes , World Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life And Death Quotes , Evil Quotes

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Wish Quotes

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Women Quotes , Age Quotes

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Life Quotes , Beauty Quotes

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , And Love Quotes , Noble 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

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Purpose Quotes

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Heart Quotes , Dark Quotes

Children: a torment and nothing more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Children Quotes

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Mad Quotes

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Lying Quotes , Heart Quotes

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Essence Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fairytale Quotes

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Real Quotes