Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Hero Quotes, Forgotten Quotes

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Hero Quotes , Forgotten Quotes

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pride Quotes , Men Quotes

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Epic Poems Quotes , Usual Quotes

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Food Quotes , Animal Quotes

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Grief Quotes , Joy Quotes

To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , God Quotes , Knowing God Quotes

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Littles Quotes , Trouble Quotes

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sarcastic Quotes , Style Quotes

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Men Quotes , Errors 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

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Sex Quotes , Men Quotes

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Children Quotes

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Mean Quotes , Patriotic Quotes

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Littles Quotes , Ethical Quotes

Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Political Opinions Quotes , Views Quotes

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Kindness Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Simplicity 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

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Book Quotes

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Sin Quotes