Quotes by Tolstoy, Count Leo

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most pene >>

Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. >>

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths a >>

Quotations about Complacency

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, b >>

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on ev >>

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound >>

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

Tolstoy, Count Leo