Question by Abhy Abe: Can you tell me some good Leo Tolstoy quotes?
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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 is very good but that most people can’t eat it. Leo Tolstoy
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo Tolstoy
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognises it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. Leo Tolstoy
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. Leo Tolstoy
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
– Leo Tolstoy, In Happiness
The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
– Leo Tolstoy, In Politics
Art renders accessible to men of the latest generations all the feelings experienced by their predecessors and also those felt by their best and foremost contemporaries . . . [Art] is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling . . . Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by those feelings and also experience them . . . A real work of art destroys in the consciousness of the recipient the separation between himself and the artist, and . . . also between himself and all whose minds receive this work of art. In this freeing of our personality from its separation and isolation, in this uniting of it with others, lies the chief characteristic and the great attractive force of art.
– Leo Tolstoy, “What is Art?” ( $ ) ( ? ), In Art
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: “I said then that it would be so,” quite forgetting that among their innumerable conjectures, many were to take the very opposite effect.
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