Leo Tolstoy Quotes

824 quotes · Novelist, Philosopher

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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Creative

“Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.”

People Art Soul

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Philosophical

“Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.”

Important Sides Dominion

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Philosophical

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

Feels Changing Your Life

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Philosophical

“Conceit is incompatible with understanding.”

Understanding Conceited

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Love

“Where there is love, there is God also.”

Love Inspirational Love

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Love

“Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.”

People Life Christian

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Hopeful

“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.”

Believe Order Happiness

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Philosophical

“We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand”

Children Inspirational Clever

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Philosophical

“If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.”

People Thinking Faith

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Courageous

“Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."”

People Feelings Wish

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Creative

“Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.”

Men Mean Art

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Spiritual

“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.”

Past Soul Done

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