“Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — 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
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
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
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — 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
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said… — 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
“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its… — 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
