The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy ...

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D. Estes, 1905
 

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Side 64 - ... notwithstanding all the hypnotic influence they employ to maintain their position, is more and more passing away. And it is time for people to understand that governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions, in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take part, and the advantages of which he cannot and should not enjoy. And as soon as people clearly understand that, they will naturally cease to take part in such deeds — that is, cease...
Side 247 - How contemptible and pitiable you all appear to me ! You do not know what happiness nor what life is! You have first to taste life in all its artless beauty ; you must see and understand what I see before me each day : the eternal, inaccessible snows of the mountains, and majestic woman in her pristine beauty, as the first woman must have issued from the hands of her Creator — and then it will be clear who it is that is being ruined, and who lives according to the truth, you or I. "If you only...
Side 183 - In the description of the events themselves the difference is still sharper and more essential. The historian has to deal with the results of an event, the artist with the fact of the event. An historian in describing a battle says: "The left flank of such and such an army was advanced to attack such and such a village and drove out the enemy, but was compelled to retire; then the cavalry, which was sent to attack, overthrew ..." and so on. But these words have no meaning for an artist and do not...
Side 15 - Though the majority of the men of our world do not know these soothing explanations of science, just as many former men did not know the details of the theological explanations which justified their position, — they none the less know that this explanation exists, that the learned and wise men have incontrovertibly proved that the existing order of things is just what it ought to be, and that, therefore, we may calmly live in this order of things, without trying to change it. It is only in this...
Side 237 - ... self-deception, and will end in annihilation for oneself? An amusing thing ! Be useful, be beneficent, be happy while life lasts, say people to one another ; but you, and happiness, and virtue, and utility, consist of truth. And the truth I have learned in thirty-two years is that the position in which we are placed is terrible. ' Take life as it is ; you have put yourselves in that position.
Side 247 - And suddenly it seemed that a new world was open to him. "Happiness is this," he said to himself: "happiness consists in living for others. This is clear. The desire for happiness is inborn in man; consequently it is legitimate. In attempting to satisfy it in an...
Side 160 - Nature's storehouse, the rule is " first come first served," so the Duke of Portland must look sharp if he wants any nuta.
Side 237 - That alone I will do, but not in the form of your art. Art is a lie, and I can no longer love a beautiful lie.
Side 159 - Would you question a monkey or a squirrel about such a business? And am I to be treated as an inferior to one of these creatures, or have I a less right? But who are you,' continued I, ' that thus take it upon you to interrupt me?' "'I'll let you know that,' said he, 'when I lay you fast for trespassing here.
Side 67 - ... it consists in this, that if a man, whether slave or slave owner, really wishes to better not his position alone, but the position of people in general, he must not himself do those wrong things which enslave him and his brothers. And in order not to do the evil which produces misery for himself and for his brothers, he should, first of all, neither willingly nor under compulsion take any part in governmental activity, and should, therefore, be neither a soldier, nor a field-marshal, nor a minister...

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