Tolstoy Quotes

Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy f...

I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I kno...

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic To...

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Ha...

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a b...

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion...

Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is al...

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would lea...

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such...

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance th...

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, dr...

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inn...

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simp...

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty,...

The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the streng...

I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, a...

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her a...

In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of su...

I often think with regret of that fresh, beautiful feeling of boundless, disinterested love which ca...

What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a bound...

Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection...

...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace,...

Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal...

Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasant...