If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour? Leo Tolstoy importantstupidmind You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all! Leo Tolstoy stormspecialwar What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy teachingpersonalitybeautiful If people tell you that Leo Tolstoy realbelievepeople Happiness is in your ability to love others. Leo Tolstoy bad-dayinspirational-lifehappiness Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver! Leo Tolstoy deceiverchanging-your-lifeliars Life is fragile and absurd. Leo Tolstoy life-is-fragileabsurdlife-is If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. Leo Tolstoy workattitudejobs Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. Leo Tolstoy politicaldoemen I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. Leo Tolstoy truthsciencelying For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. Leo Tolstoy inevitableeyeimpossible A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages. Leo Tolstoy growing-upstrugglemen The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful. Leo Tolstoy mysterious-thingsintelligentkindness To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.' Leo Tolstoy evilwarpeople If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. Leo Tolstoy perfectlifelooks The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase. Leo Tolstoy politicalworkpeople Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy happinessinspirationallife Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. Leo Tolstoy forgive-and-forgetforgivenesspeace Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy bookideas I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. Leo Tolstoy rewritingi-canwriting
