Leo Tolstoy Quotes

824 quotes · Novelist, Philosopher

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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

All Philosophical Love Spiritual Creative Angry 824 quotes · page 31 of 50

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Funny

“The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.”

Looks Blood Sauce

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Love

“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”

Writing Soul Work

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Philosophical

“Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?”

Men Peace

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Sad

“Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Way Unhappy

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Love

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees.”

People Nature Quality

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Spiritual

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Art Lying Religious

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Love

“vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.”

Vegetarianism Humanitarianism

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Sad

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

Ends Terrible

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Love

“Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I.”

Eye Order Movement

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Grateful

“What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.”

Life Powerful Simple

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Happy

“If you want to be happy, just be.”

Want Ifs

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Creative

“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”

People Men

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