If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy Effort Copy Share Image
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God,” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...” — leo tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Death, the inevitable end of everything, confronted him for the first time with irresistible force.” — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” — Leo Tolstoy Government Copy Share Image
“Parents now are not expected to live at all, but to exist altogether for their children.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there… — Leo Tolstoy Focus Copy Share Image
“Occasionally she glanced at him, asking with her glance, 'Is this what I think?' "I understand,' she said, blushing. "What is this… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Contempt 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
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Crafts Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Cheerful Copy Share Image
“But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though they would have been… — Leo Tolstoy Battle Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Yet it was a strange thing that, though we sometimes passed whole hours together without speaking when we were alone, the mere… — Leo Tolstoy Intimacy Copy Share Image
“Speransky, either because he appreciated Prince Andrey's abilities or because he thought it as well to secure his adherence, showed off his… — Leo Tolstoy Companionship Copy Share Image
“ "If you prefer it, Your Excellency, a private room will be free directly: Prince Golitsin with a lady. Fresh oysters have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Advantage Copy Share Image
“They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.” — Leo Tolstoy Slander Copy Share Image
“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it. — Leo Tolstoy Conscience Copy Share Image
