Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures” — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom Copy Share Image
“He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Affection Copy Share Image
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.” — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Do not seek quiet and rest in those earthly realms where delusions and desires are engendered, for if thou dost, thou wilt… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating those pages that had been… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics.… — Leo Tolstoy Russia Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in… — Leo Tolstoy Principle Copy Share Image
“Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Thoughts and emotions Copy Share Image
“I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. What I… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
“I was only a year and some odd months younger than Woloda, and from the first we had grown up and studied… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy Folly Copy Share Image
“Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemiņus, un es nemaz negaidu ciemiņus, un nekas nav noticis, bet es lūdzu jūs aizbraukt” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Destruction Copy Share Image
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Anger Copy Share Image
“She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to her.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
