Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Tushin did not tell him that there were no covering troops, though that was the plain truth. He was afraid to let… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — 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
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
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — 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
“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion—science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. A Frenchman is self-assured… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions… — 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
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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