Leo Tolstoy quote: But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they ...

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

~ Leo Tolstoy ~

Photo by Bri Schneiter

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell

Photo by Pixabay

Photo by Lisa from Pexels

Photo by Pixabay

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, an...

Picture of Leo Tolstoy — Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina

More Leo Tolstoy quotes

"
We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...

"
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

"
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but th...

"
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.

"
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.

"
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake ...

"
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

"
In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the expression of myself, t...

"
One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the other, it's all up; y...

"
Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through ...

"
You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

"
To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...

"
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...

"
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

"
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.