In fearing to make an effort to escape from conditions that are fatal to us, because the future is obscure and unknown, we are like passengers on a sinking ship, who crowd into the cabin and refuse to leave it, because they have not the courage to enter the boat that would carry them to shore. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “What would be destroyed is whatever is false…”
(If people changed inwardly) They would be different, richer, and higher, but would not at all be discontinued. What would be destroyed is whatever is false in them, while whatever is true in them would blossom and grow stronger. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “There are some men…”
There are some men — but the smaller number — who instantly, and as though by prophetic intuition, perceive the truth, surrender themselves to its influence, and live up to its precepts. Others — and they are the majority — are brought to the knowledge of the truth and the necessity for its adoption, by a long series of errors, […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “However much we have dulled ourselves with hypocrisy…”
However much we have dulled ourselves with hypocrisy, and dulled ourselves with the self-suggestion resulting from hypocrisy, nothing can destroy the absolute certainty of that simple and clear truth that no exterior effort can provide us with security. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “The man who spends his life in sensual acts…”
The man who spends his life in sensual acts performs acts that depend on temporary causes beyond his control. Of himself he does nothing, but it seems to him that he is acting independently. In reality, all that he imagines he is doing by himself is done through him by a higher power; he is not the creator of life […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “It seldom happens that a man changes his life…”
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in the old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable… he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “An idea about God is not God.”
An idea about God is not God. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “It is the recognition or non-recognition…”
It is the recognition or non-recognition of these principles that a man finds or fails to find freedom. Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “If you did not desire your present position…”
If you did not desire your present position, you would not be doing everything possible to maintain it… If you cease doing those things which maintain your position, you will lose at once that position which you claim is forced upon you and which is your burden… It is impossible for any man to be placed against his own will […]
Leo Tolstoy Quote – “Each man in his perception of truth…”
Each man in his perception of truth is like a traveller who walks by aid of a lantern whose light is cast before him: he does not see what as yet has not been revealed by the beams, he does not see the path he has left behind… but at any given step he sees that which the lantern reveals, […]