36 Quotes About Leo-tolstoy

Oblonsy was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going to be proud of your ancestry, why stop short at Prince Rurik and repudiate your oldest ancestor - the ape?

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

Tolstoy is frequently quoted as saying something about how all happy families are the same. but unhappy families are all unhappy in different ways. Of course he's got it totally wrong, completely ass-backward. Happiness is infinite in its variety, and happy people, happy families, can find their joy in so many different ways.... And all the unhappy families are all pretty much the same. All types of misery are identical at the core...

The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.

თანამედროვე დროს აუცილებელია დათმო გაცნობიერებული თავისუფლება და აღიარო შეუგრძნობადი ჩვენი დამოკიდებულება

But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.

The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.

إنك لن تستطيع أن تفهم ذلك، فأنتم أيها الرجال لكم الحرية في اختيار من تريدون، من الواضح لكم دائما من تحبون من الفتيات، ولكن الفتاة لا تستطيع أن تختار، كل ما تستطيعه أن تقول "نعم" أو "لا".