Home / Quotes / Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”

Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Book:What Is Art?

Work

This book delves into the essence of art, examining its role in human culture and the diverse ways it has been defined and appreciated across different eras and societies. more

Author

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

You May Also Like

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

Men Dream Past Vision Bottom Wit I Had A Dream Midsummer Summer Nights Midsummer Night's Dream Mid Summer Nights Dream Dreaming At Night Dream Act

Author:William Shakespeare

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”

Matter Science Universe Conditions Creation Identity Creatures Shadow Ultimate Defeat Curse Androids

Book:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.”

Next Religious Neighborhood Burned Cheese Godliness Cleanliness Chores Ovens Religious Experience Toasters

Author:Erma Bombeck

“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”

Thinking World Used Father Son

Author:Bill Bryson

“I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.”

Way Want Trying Believe Ideas Reason Reality Might Universe Grows Felt Our Lives Capable Rounds Invisible Subtle Continuing Interfere Continuing To Grow

Author:Paulo Coelho

“A screaming comes across the sky.”

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Country Lasts Law My Own Cutting Wind Benefits Devil Seasons Down And Safety Sake Blow Flats Thick Coast

Author:Robert Bolt

“Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”

Long Done Hands Walks Sun Gone Land Moon Kissing Lips Golden Wander Grass Apples Silver Hollow Pluck

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.”

Knows Stills Waiting Havens

Author:Philip Levine

“In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.”

Should Matter Spirit Sides Space Decision Break Dog Breaths Seven Determined Ghost Break Through Samurai

Author:Jim Jarmusch