Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"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."
"...Those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."
"It's bad to be unable to stand solitude."
"It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false."
"Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
"Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."