Leo Tolstoy Quotes

• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  Leo Tolstoy

• 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.

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• Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

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• Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

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• Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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• Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

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• If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

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• Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

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• He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

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• Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

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• Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

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• Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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• And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

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• All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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• The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

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  Tags in Patriotism

• Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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  Topics in Work

• Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – opening line from Anna Karenina

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  Topics in Family

• I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.

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  Tags in Unity, Government, Globalism

• 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.

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  Topics in Joy, Service

Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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