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Letter "L" » Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes
«War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
conscience, stifle, stifled, stifles, stifling, The Voice, ugly, unjust, voice, voice of conscience, wage, waged, waging
«Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
artist, experienced, feeling, handicraft, handicrafts, transmission
«He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
exceptional, heard, judged, mysterious, ordinary, plain, plainer, plainest
«Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.»
«War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
assume, Christian, especially, on the other hand, starting, terrible
«History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.»
«Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
discovers, Truth by Reason
«Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Historians
| Keywords:
answering, deaf, go on, Historians
«Boredom: the desire for desires»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
boredom, desires
«The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Patience,
Time
| Keywords:
patience, powerful, warriors
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