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Leo Tolstoy - From the Art category:
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Authority category:
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means – by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Beauty category:
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man – we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Change category:
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Communication category:
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and the best feelings to which men have risen. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Communication category:
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Ego category:
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Emotion category:
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by those feelings and experience them. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Emotion category:
Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Emotion category:
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Experience category:
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Greatness category:
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Happiness category:
If you want to be happy, be. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Happiness category:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Health category:
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself – it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Intellect category:
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Knowledge category:
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Peace category:
The task of art is enormous... Art should cause violence to be set aside. And it is only art that can accomplish this. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Questions category:
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Truth category:
Most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions [in] which they have delighted... (Leo Tolstoy)
Leo Tolstoy - From the Understanding category:
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. (Leo Tolstoy)
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