Feelings Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

— Leo Tolstoy

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

— Leo Tolstoy

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

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Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take…

— Leo Tolstoy

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that…

— Leo Tolstoy

“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again…

— Leo Tolstoy

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling…

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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from…

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In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of…

— Leo Tolstoy

Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man…

— Leo Tolstoy

Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating…

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In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in…

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If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always…

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Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a…

— Leo Tolstoy

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it…

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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental…

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Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:…

— Leo Tolstoy

Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked…

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Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.…

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act…

— Leo Tolstoy

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the…

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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated…

— Leo Tolstoy

In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the…

— Leo Tolstoy

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,…

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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others…

— Leo Tolstoy

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .…

— Leo Tolstoy