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Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 27

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The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Military, Ignorance, Discipline

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.

Men, Sitting, Legs

But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

Men, Evil, Done

Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Despair, Would Be, Ends

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

Heart, Successful, Hands

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity.

Mean, Understanding, Humanity

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)”, p.794, e-artnow

Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

Ideas, Perfect, Interesting

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

And Love, Noble, Calm

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.194, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Humanity, Doe, March

Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1961). “War and peace”

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Past, Unhappy, Felt

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.470, e-artnow

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.

Beautiful, Longing, Virtue

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

Our Love, Different, Drifting

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More”, p.1793, e-artnow

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

Giving, Needs, Forget

Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very important. Whereas intelligence, honesty, straightforwardness, good-naturedness and morality are qualities usually found among people who claim to be non-believers.

Honesty, People, Quality

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

Art, Mean, Men

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

People, Unity, World

graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome.

Spirit, Hateful, Miserable

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.109, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

Abnormal, Mania, Grandeur

graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1911). “The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

Wife, Worry

Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?

War, Book, Heart

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What Men Live By and Other Tales”, p.39, Xist Publishing

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Getting Old

Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.519, Vintage

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Peace, War, Distance

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

Thinking, Peaceful, Charm

LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

Justice, Doubt, Together

Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Important, Settling, Settling Down

Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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