Leo Tolstoy Quotes
- If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of
abstinence is from injury to animals.
- It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a
good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good
deed often can feed a person’s pride.
- There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the
regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place?
Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels
it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of
changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.
- All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.
- Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of
intelligent women.
- Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should
be.
- Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission
to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
- The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most
slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but
the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man
if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of
doubt, what is laid before him.
- Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not
complain of it.
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want
to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is
not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand
that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only
a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest
passions we posses.
- The law of loving others could not be discovered by reason,
because it is unreasonable.
- Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one
could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.
- Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the
possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in
it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and
be happy.
- The good is the everlasting, the pinnacle of our life. ... life
is striving towards the good, toward God. The good is the most basic
idea ... an idea not definable by reason ... yet is the postulate
from which all else follows
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