“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy buch The Kreutzer Sonata
Variante: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Quelle: The Kreutzer Sonata
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“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina
(voice of Anna) C. Garnett, trans. (New York: 2003), Part 7, Chapter 24 p. 685
Quelle: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Quelle: Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“If you want to be happy, be.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 352; this statement appears in late 20th century inspirational books, but with no known citation to original material by Tolstoy.
Disputed
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina
Quelle: Anna Karenina
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Leo Tolstoy buch Krieg und Frieden
Quelle: War and Peace
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina
Quelle: Anna Karenina
“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina
Quelle: Anna Karenina
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy buch A Confession
Quelle: A Confession
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Leo Tolstoy buch Krieg und Frieden
Quelle: War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy buch Anna Karenina
Variante: When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Quelle: Anna Karenina
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy buch Krieg und Frieden
Bk. X, ch. 16
Quelle: War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)