All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone. Leo Tolstoy honesty brother heart To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. Leo Tolstoy honesty truth people Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. Leo Tolstoy passion habit men At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love? Leo Tolstoy dust believe hands One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy karma inspirational men What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty. Leo Tolstoy philosophical animal thinking True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view. Leo Tolstoy sacrifice two art Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! Leo Tolstoy girl break-up gone God gave the day, God gave the strength. Leo Tolstoy Read less, study less, but think more Leo Tolstoy study inspirational thinking There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. Leo Tolstoy inspirational life way Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. Leo Tolstoy terrible ends Without Greek studies there is no education. Leo Tolstoy study greek Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. Leo Tolstoy men two years People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure. Leo Tolstoy lying people art Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist. Leo Tolstoy eye heart men When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch. Leo Tolstoy eye hurt spiritual How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! Leo Tolstoy deceit sin lying The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why, then have people generally not come to acknowledge this law? The answer is that the moral progress of humanity is always slow; but that the sign of true, not casual Progress, is in uninterruptedness and its continual acceleration. And one cannot doubt that vegetarianism has been progressing in this manner Leo Tolstoy vegetarianism law animal Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder. Leo Tolstoy men war thinking
