У меня нет всего, что я люблю. Но я люблю всё, что у меня есть.
Не слушайте тех, кто говорит дурно о других и хорошо о вас.
Мир движется вперёд благодаря тем, кто страдает.
Степень правдивости человека есть указатель степени его нравственного совершенства.
Один из самых обычных и ведущих к самым большим бедствиям соблазнов есть соблазн словами: «Все так делают».
Все великие перемены в жизни одного человека, а также и всего человечества, начинаются и совершаются в мысли. Для того, чтобы могла произойти перемена чувств и поступков, должна произойти прежде всего перемена мысли.
Одно из самых обычных заблуждений состоит в том, чтобы считать людей добрыми, злыми, глупыми, умными. Человек течет, и в нем есть все возможности: был глуп, стал умен, был зол, стал добр, и наоборот. В этом величие человека. И от этого нельзя судить человека. Какого? Ты осудил, а он уже другой. Нельзя и сказать: не люблю. Ты сказал, а оно другое..
・ Without love, life is easier. But without it there is no point.
・ I do not have anything that I love. But I love everything I have.
・ Do not listen to those who say bad things about friends and good things about you.
・ The world is moving forward thanks to those who suffer.
・ The degree of truth of man is an index to the extent of his moral perfection.
・ One of the most common and leading to the biggest disaster temptation is tempting words: “Everybody does it.”
・ All great change in the life of one man, and the whole of humanity, begin and committed in thought. To change could occur feelings and actions must occur before a change of mind.
・ One of the most common misconceptions is the way people consider the others good, evil, stupid and smart. Man flows and changes, and has all kinds of possibilities: one could be stupid, clever, angry and kind. This is the greatness of man. Because of this, you can never judge a person. …
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
If you want to be happy, be.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
(Google Translation)
Leo Tolstoy
・ Without love, life is easier. But without it there is no point.
・ I do not have anything that I love. But I love everything I have.
・ Do not listen to those who say bad things about friends and good things about you.
・ The world is moving forward thanks to those who suffer.
・ The degree of truth of man is an index to the extent of his moral perfection.
・ One of the most common and leading to the biggest disaster temptation is tempting words: “Everybody does it.”
・ All great change in the life of one man, and the whole of humanity, begin and committed in thought. To change could occur feelings and actions must occur before a change of mind.
・ One of the most common misconceptions is the way people consider the others good, evil, stupid and smart. Man flows and changes, and has all kinds of possibilities: one could be stupid, clever, angry and kind. This is the greatness of man. Because of this, you can never judge a person. …
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
If you want to be happy, be.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.