He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States." Leo Tolstoy wish feelings people In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. Leo Tolstoy greatness names men And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living. Leo Tolstoy suicidal suicide father No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit Leo Tolstoy wit position satisfied Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity. Leo Tolstoy government humanity mean I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master. Leo Tolstoy masters giving past vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism. Leo Tolstoy humanitarianism vegetarianism I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. Leo Tolstoy causes evil want ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. Leo Tolstoy always-be-happy age love And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained. Leo Tolstoy illusion has-beens peace One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense. Leo Tolstoy three believe religion He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love. Leo Tolstoy god-is-love love-is It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence. Leo Tolstoy crush animal men Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. Leo Tolstoy vegetarianism humanity perfection As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God. Leo Tolstoy lasts real dream All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. Leo Tolstoy anarchy government evil Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. Leo Tolstoy clarification progress answers But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but something huge and merciless struck her on the head and dragged her down on her back. Leo Tolstoy light eye hands I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world. Leo Tolstoy remembers-everything goes-on thinking Happy people have no history. Leo Tolstoy happy-people history people
