Quotes
Quotes - Tolstoy
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Love . . . love . . . is a preference for one man or one woman to the exclusion of all others. . .
It is generally agreed that love is a moral sentiment, a community of thought rather than of sense. If that is the case, this community of thought ought to find expression in words and conversation.
If you deal carelessly with bees you will injure them,and will yourself be injured. And so with men. It cannot be otherwise, because natural love is the fundamental law of human life.
Theoretically a lofty love is conceivable; practically it is an ignoble and degrading thing, which it is equally disgusting to talk about and to remember. It is not in vain that nature has made ceremonies, but people pretend that the ignoble and the shameful is beautiful and lofty.
"Love hinders death. 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."
Love is the unity of souls
[O]n the contrary, love is not love at all if a girl desires to marry a man for his money alone, but that, in her opinion, riches were a vain thing, and true love only the affection which can stand the test of separation...
After all his former doubts, he now felt something he had never before experienced--the certainty that love is invincible.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
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.
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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.
