Поиск по творчеству и критике
Cлово "SAY"

Часть текста: conditions of life, so that the christian relations exist only between members of the colony but outside that must remain unchristian, otherwise the colony would not exist for a moment. And therefore to live in community cannot save a christian from the contradiction between his conscience and his life. I do not mean to say that I do not approve of communities such as your commonwealth, or that I do not think them to be a good thing. On the contrary, I approve of them with all my heart and am very interested in your commonwealth and wish it the greatest success. I think that every man who can free himself from the conditions of wordly life without breaking the ties of love — love the main principle in the name of which he seeks new forms of life — I think such a man not only must, but naturally join people who have the same beliefs and who try to live up to them. If I were free I would immediately even at my age join such a colony. I only wished to say that the mere forming of communities is not a solution for the christian problem, but is only one of the means of its solution. The revolution that is going on for the attainment of the christian ideal is so enormous, our life is so different from what it ought to be, that for the perfect success of this revolution, for the concordance of conscience and life, is needed the work of all men — men living in communities as well as men of the world living in the most different conditions. This ideal is not so quickly and so simply attained, as we think and wish it. This ideal will be attained only when every man in the whole world will say: Why should I sell my services and buy yours? If mine are greater than yours I owe them to you, because if there ...

2. Толстой Л. Н. - Иокаи, 28 января 1896 г.

Входимость: 4. Размер: 6кб.

Часть текста: the practicability of Christ[‘s] teaching and that you intend to preach to your countrymen Christianity as it is presented in the Sermon on the Mount. That is a great purpose and I do not know a greater, to which a man could devote his life. But to be sincere with you I must say, that in your article, as well as in your letter, 2 I can see that you have not quite made up your mind which master you will serve: God or Mammon; will you try to obtain the personal, familial or national welfare, or try only to fulfil the will of God, making no difference between men and nations. You say, that you will try to do what you can to break down the walls of partition through sectarianism and different religious systems, and through ultra strong patriotism . You say the same usual patriotism in your article — as if there can be two kinds of patriotism — the one good, the other, the ultra strong, bad patriotism. To say that patriotism can be good, is a great delusion, and if you suppose, that any kind of patriotism can be good, you open the door to the greatest evils. Patriotism and Christianity are two opposite terms and can not be united. I have written an article in form of a letter to an English correspondent about this subject, 3 and if it interests you, you can read it in the English papers, or I can send it to you. To save the far East from all...

3. Толстой Л. Н. - Син-Джону Артуру (Arthur. St. John), 15 февраля 1899 г.

Входимость: 3. Размер: 7кб.

Часть текста: they seem not to be real. I think that it is very good for them to have such friends as you and others of our friends. You are the consciousness of their principles, and with your help they feel more vividly their faults. I think that illness has lowered their spirit. Say them, please that I will do what I can to take them from Cyprus, and I hope that I will be succesful. If I could 5 write Russian, my letter would be very long because I wish to say many things to you, but as I cannot do it, I must finish my letter. With true brotherly love, Leo Tolstoy. Please forward my letter to Potapoff and Веригинъ. 6 Москва. А. Син-Джону. Очень благодарю вас за ваше письмо, 1 дорогой друг. Я слышал о вашей болезни и очень рад узнать, что вы поправились. Наталия И[енкен] 2 и Маша Шанкс 3 были у нас вчера, и мы очень много говорили с ними о вас. Странно сказать, но я был рад узнать о недостатках Д[ухоборов]. 4 В картине, которую с них рисуют, нет теней, поэтому они кажутся не живыми. Я думаю, что им очень полезно иметь таких друзей, как вы и другие наши друзья. Вы служите им совестью, напоминающей им о их принципах, и с вашей помощью они живее чувствуют свои ошибки. Я думаю, что они ослабели духом вследствие болезни. Скажите им, пожалуйста, что я сделаю, чтò могу, чтобы вывезти их с Кипра, и надеюсь, что мне это...

4. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John Kenworthy), 27 июня 1896 г.

Входимость: 3. Размер: 11кб.

Часть текста: if in the transformation they would drop this name). 1 I think, that a great part of the evil of the world is due to our wishing to see the realization of what we are striving at, but are not ready for, and therefore being satisfied with the semblance of that, which should be. Compulsory governement organization is indeed nought else, than the semblance of good order, which is maintained by prisons, gallows, police, army and workhouses. Of real order there is none; only, that which infringes, it is hidden from our view in prisons, penal settlements and slums. And I think, that the dicease remains so long uncured, because it is concealed. So likewise with brotherhood or church communities. They also are semblances. There cannot be a community of saints among sinners. I think, that the members of a community in order to keep the semblance of sainthood must necessarily commit many new sins. We are so created, that we cannot become perfect either one by one, or in groups, but (from the very nature of the case) only all together. The warmth of any drop (or particle) is transmitted to all the others. And were it possible to conserve the heat of one particle, so that it should not pass to the others and...

5. Толстой Л. Н. - Макдональду Александру (Alexander Macdonald), 26 июля 1895 г.

Входимость: 3. Размер: 20кб.

Часть текста: as it very soon becomes a mechanical procedure; secondly and chiefly, because in the Gospels this error is plainly pointed out and it is there definitely said (Math. VI), that one should not pray in public places, but in solitude, which is corroborated both by the reason and the experience of every man, who has ever sincerely prayed to God, as the assembly of people only distracts, makes one’s thoughts wander and diverts them. I think that Sunday rest and dedication of this day to spiritual exercise may take place in the most various forms. One may suggest, that men of the same spirit, meeting together on Sunday, should bring to their meeting such religious books or articles which they find in ancient and modern literature and read and discuss them together; one may suggest, that meeting together on Sunday men of the same spirit should arrange dinners for the poor and themselves serve those dinners; one may suggest, that meeting together men of the same spirit should confess their sins to each other and discuss them. In short one can think of a hundred different forms of worship, which should all have for their aim a...

6. Толстой Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John С. Kenworthy), 30 декабря1901 г. (12 января 1902 г.)

Входимость: 2. Размер: 3кб.

Часть текста: Л. Н. - Кенворти Джону (John С. Kenworthy), 30 декабря1901 г. (12 января 1902 г.) 194. Джону Кенворти (John Kenworthy). 1901 г. Декабря 30/1902 г. января 12. Гаспра. Koreis. Crimea. Dear friend, I thank you heartily for sending me your writings 1 and especially for your kind letter. I can say quite sincerely that I never forgot and never will the gladness that I felt in knowing you and your work and the joy that I got from my communion with you. 2 I can not help saying that I am sorry for the importance that you attach to spiritism. Your true and pure Christian faith and life are much more reliable than all that the spirits can say to you. Your true friend Leo Tolstoy. 1 Jan./30 dec. 1902. Кореиз. Крым. Дорогой друг. От души благодарю вас за присылку ваших сочинений 1 и особенно за ваше доброе письмо. Могу сказать совершенно искренно, что я никогда не забывал и никогда не забуду, какой радостью для меня было знакомство с вами и вашей деятельностью, и ту радость, которую я получал от общения с вами 2 . Не могу не сказать, что я сожалею о значении, которое вы придаете спиритизму. Ваша истинная и чистая христианская вера и жизнь достойны гораздо большего доверия, чем всё, что могут вам сказать духи. Ваш искренний друг Лев Толстой. 11 янв. /30 дек. 1902. Примечания Печатается по копировальной книге № 3, л. 176 (текст плохо отпечатался, восстановлен О. К. Толстой). Авторская дата нового стиля ошибочна. О Джоне Кенворти см. т. 67. Ответ на письмо Кенворти от 11 декабря н. ст. 1901 г. На этом письме Толстой написал черновик ответа, почти без изменений вошедший в первую фразу второго абзаца...

7. Толстой Л. Н. - Пикард Элизе (Eliza Pickard), 1 (13) августа 1900 г.

Входимость: 2. Размер: 4кб.

Часть текста: and can not change. It is founded on something much more strong than friendship. My opinion, I am sorry to say it, is formed also on the present state of mind of Mr Kenworthy. His last letter in which he writes: „You have promised me your books to publish including the last story «Resurrection»”, which assertion has not the shadow of truth, and his silly — to say the best of it — accusation of Tchertkoff of which he has not the shadow of a reason, or of a proof, or of a right — have convinced me that he is not himself. Therefore I would be very much obliged to you if you could persuade him not to write to me any more about this matter. I am very sorry for him and especially for the impossibility in which I am to help him and to have any intercourse with him while he remains in the present unaccountable state of mind. Please excuse me if the contents of this letter will be desagreable to you. I could not help it. Yours truly, Leo Tolstoy. 12 August 1900. Дорогая мисс Пикард, Мне совершенно неинтересно знать мнение мисс Хола и других о Черткове. Мое мнение о нем составлено и не может измениться. Оно основано на чем-то более сильном, нежели дружба. Мое мнение, должен, к сожалению, сказать, сложилось также и о теперешнем состоянии ума г. Кенворти. Его последнее письмо, в котором он пишет: „Вы обещали мне ваши книги для издания, включая последнюю повесть «Воскресение»” — утверждение, не...

8. Толстой Л. Н. - Редферну Перси (Percy Redfern), 23 февраля 1903 г.

Входимость: 2. Размер: 5кб.

Часть текста: to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God it is very difficult not to think about the impression w[h]ich they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. As to his plan to live amongst prostitutes and tramps... I can not say that I approuve of it. Rather not. I think that to change own’s habitual life for such a one a man must [be] quite sure to be proof against the new temptations that will assail him in this new life. This refers also to your doubts about your life. I think that the changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than accordingly to the demands of our conscience but not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. I was glad to hear all what you write about your society 1 and yourself and thank you for your letter. Your friend Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой Перси Редферн, Я думаю, что ваш друг, который против книг и чтения, вполне прав. Лао-Тзе говорит: истинные слова не бывают приятны, приятные слова не бывают истинны. Мудрые не бывают учены, ученые не бывают мудры! Брамины говорят, что в их книгах много предсказаний о временах, когда пойдут дожди. Но жмите эти книги так сильно, как только можете, и всё же вы не выдавите оттуда ни одной капли воды. И точно так же вы не можете добыть даже ...

9. Letter to a Hindoo (Письмо к индусу)

Входимость: 2. Размер: 77кб.

Часть текста: I beckon thee, for I have placed thee in broad smooth paths which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou can’st follow and thus run without stumbling. Krishna P. 212. I received your letter and the two issues of the magazine. Both were intensely interesting to me; indeed, the oppression of a majority by the minority of a people and the corruption which flows from it, is a phenomenon which has always occupied my mind and at present is entirely occupying my attention. I will endeavour to convey to you what I think, both in a particular and a general way, about those causes from which those dreadful calamities have arisen and do arise, of which you write in your letter and which are also mentioned in the two numbers of the Hindoo magazine you sent me. The causes, owing to which this astonishing spectacle arises, of the majority of the labouring classes submitting to a mere handful of idlers whom it permits to dispose not only of its labour but also of its very life, are always and everywhere the same; whether the oppressors and the oppressed belong to the same, or, as is the case in India and in other countries, where the dominant class belongs to an entirely different nation from those oppressed. It appears especially strange of India, for here we have a people of 200 millions of individuals, highly endowed with spiritual and physical powers, in absolute subjection to a small clique, composed of persons utterly alien in thought and aspiration and altogether inferior to those whom they enslave. These causes, as one can easily see from your letter, from the articles in «Free Hindustan», from the highly interesting writings of the Hindoo Swami Vivekananda and others, are in accord with that which causes the distress of all the peoples of our time; in the absence of a rational religious teaching which, while elucidating the meaning of life to the people in an equal way, would also make clear the higher law, which...

10. Толстой Л. Н. - Беллоузу Джону (John Bellows), 24 ноября (7 декабря) 1901 г.

Входимость: 2. Размер: 5кб.

Часть текста: not do it. So you must excuse me for my long silence. I read your letter twice and considered the matter as well as I could and could not arrive at a definite solution of the question. You may be right but I think not for every person which will read the book. It can have a bad influence over persons who will read not the whole book and not take in the sense of it. It might also have quite the opposite influence so as it was intented to. All what I can say in my defense is that when I read a book the chief interest for me is the Weltanschau[u]ng des Authors, what he likes and what he hates. And I hope that the reader, which will read my book with the same view will find out what the author likes or dislikes and will be influenced with the sentiment of the author. And I can say that when I wrote the book I abhorred with all my heart the lust and to express this abhorrence was one of the chief aims of the book. If I have failed in it I am very sorry and I am pleading guilty if I was so inconsiderate in the scene of which you write, that I could have produced such a bad impression on your mind. I think that we will be judged by our conscience and by God — not for the results of our deeds, which we can not know, but for our intentions. And I hope that my intentions were not bad. Yours truly Leo Tolstoy. 7 December 1901. Дорогой друг, Получил ваше письмо и предполагал ответить на него, но последние два месяца я был так слаб, что не мог этого сделать. Поэтому вы должны извинить меня за мое долгое молчание. Я дважды прочел ваше письмо, обдумывал вопрос как умел, но не мог прийти к определенному решению его. Вы, может...

Поиск по творчеству и критикеCлово "SAY"

Поиск по творчеству и критике
Cлово "SAY"