Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes (25 Quotes)


    Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.


    The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.


    The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.



    Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.



    My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so but there was no real life in me.

    A modern branch of mathematics, having achieved the art of dealing with the infinitely small, can now yield solutions in other more complex problems of motion, which used to appear insoluble. This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the ancients, whe.

    A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.


    Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonalthat there is no human relationship between master and slave.

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

    Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

    For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

    A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.


    If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food,because ... its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling killing.

    It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

    The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.


    Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.



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