“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only now did Pierre understand the full force of human vitality and the saving power of the shifting of attention that has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.” — 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
