Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 18

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• It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Heart, Animal

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• And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Pride, Stupidity, Dishonesty

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• Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stars, Sky, Depth

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1020, Vintage

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• Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doctors, Blood, Medicine

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.1102, Vintage

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• If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Country, Teaching

  "Patriotism or Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Historical, Causes

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• Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Resurrection, Christ, Immortality

  "My Religion". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 8, 1884.

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Writing, Play, People

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• From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Confidence, Clever, Stupid

  "War and Peace".

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• If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Generations, Mormonism, World

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• Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

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  Would Be, Sometimes, Knows

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• Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sex, Women, Social

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1985). “Tolstoy's Diaries”

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• How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Suicide, Writing, Suicidal

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• In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Law, Divine Right

  Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

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• And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.

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  Feet, Looks, Way

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1960). “What Is Art?”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ends, Terrible

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.86, Vintage

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• War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

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  War, Moving, Thinking

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

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  Movement, Social, Social Movements

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• You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

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  Over You, Asking, Dies

  Leo Tolstoy (2007). “War and Peace”, p.272, Penguin

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• One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Religion, Three

  "Resurrection: What is Religion?".

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• And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Tragedy, Needs, Platonic Love

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.38, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Unhappy, Use, World

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.547, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Intelligent, Boys, Years

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• The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Marriage, Sex, Men

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• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stress, World, Amusement

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.81, 1909.

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