Psychology Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

— Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

— Leo Tolstoy

“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not…

— Leo Tolstoy

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

— Leo Tolstoy

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?”

— Leo Tolstoy

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a…

— Leo Tolstoy

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their…

— Leo Tolstoy

“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility…

— Leo Tolstoy

“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these…

— Leo Tolstoy

In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It will readily be understood that Nechludoff’s influence caused me to adopt his bent of mind, the essence of which lay in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is…

— Leo Tolstoy

“MAN’S MIND cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty…

— Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

— Leo Tolstoy

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would…

— Leo Tolstoy

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter…

— Leo Tolstoy