Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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