Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everything I know, I know because of love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Talking Quotes , People Quotes

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in the evolution of feelings, which takes place by means of art. Lower feelings-less kind and less needed for the good of humanity-are forced out and replaced by kinder feelings which better serve us individually and collectively. This is the purpose of art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Military Quotes , Issues Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Wanted Quotes , Stills Quotes

but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Goodness Quotes , Minutes Quotes

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Reason Quotes

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mankind Quotes

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Happiness Quotes , You Make Me Happy Quotes

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Unhappiness Quotes , Unsaid Quotes

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fever Quotes , Way Quotes

Everything intelligent is so boring.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Intelligence 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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Love Quotes , Christian Quotes

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Long Quotes , Deceit Quotes

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Morning Quotes , Inspiration Quotes

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , War Quotes , Should Have Quotes

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Grease Quotes , Wheels 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Religious Quotes , People Quotes