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Psychology Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

42 Psychology quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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Leo Tolstoy points out that freethinkers use their minds without prejudice, willing to explore ideas that clash with customs. He observes that humans can adapt to any condition, and that emotions like tears act as oil that keeps relationships running smoothly. He also mentions how a broken inner screw can halt a life’s purpose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

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“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at…

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

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

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command…

The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,…

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.