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 Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. Leo Tolstoy logic math men All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love. Leo Tolstoy morning children cheating And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either. Leo Tolstoy thought-provoking mind years Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them. Leo Tolstoy men mean art If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known. Leo Tolstoy mormonism generations world One must be cunning and wicked in this world. Leo Tolstoy wicked this-world world The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. Leo Tolstoy artistic political order Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre Leo Tolstoy mediocre useless knows He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. Leo Tolstoy reason If you want to be happy, just be. Leo Tolstoy want-to-be-happy ifs want It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. Leo Tolstoy given judging people Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost. Leo Tolstoy done lost advice I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. Leo Tolstoy getting-old There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before. Leo Tolstoy tomorrow yesterday today Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified. Leo Tolstoy states ends christianity There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. Leo Tolstoy lines terrible fear And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head. Leo Tolstoy cigar dinner habit The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible. Leo Tolstoy humanity history people He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. Leo Tolstoy mistaken death ideas It's hard to love a woman and do anything. Leo Tolstoy hard
