Leo Tolstoy Quotes — Page 29

Novelist, Philosopher

Spiritual

“What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is death? What power rules over everything?" he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions except one, which was not logical and was not at all an answer to these questions. This answer was: "You will die--and everything will end. You will die and learn everything--or stop asking.”

Lying Hate Asking

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Curious

“By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich”

Soul Might Digging

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Angry

“It is no sin to look at a nice girl.”

Looks Girl

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Happy

“The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.”

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Curious

“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.”

Writing Suicide Suicidal

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Confident

“But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.”

Men Lying Love You

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Love

“To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.”

Long Love Burning

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Determined

“If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things”

Men Inspirational Stupid

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Spiritual

“It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.”

People Terrible Knowing God

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Philosophical

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

Life Change Deep Thought

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Philosophical

“Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.”

Age Women Golden

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Philosophical

“Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.”

Issues Today Prejudice

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