Category Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Says: “People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness

Leo Tolstoy Says: “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “‘Thou shalt not kill’ does not apply to murder of one’s own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”

Leo Tolstoy Says:  “The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another’s labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “In a writer there must always be two people – the writer and the critic.”

Leo Tolstoy Says:  “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.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”