Quotes Tagged With :tolstoy

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

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or....

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

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

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

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten....

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We....

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

The endless ocean was his sole companion , and on some deeply sentimental level, it seemed sufficient.....

In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked....