Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.” — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who… — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! — Leo Tolstoy Break up Copy Share Image
“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Depth Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Blessings Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Battlefields Copy Share Image
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was… — Leo Tolstoy Hatred Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits. — Leo Tolstoy Clothes Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
“The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they… — Leo Tolstoy Patience Copy Share Image
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your… — Leo Tolstoy Friend Copy Share Image
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must… — Leo Tolstoy Religion Copy Share Image
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy Achievement Copy Share Image
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.” — Leo Tolstoy Fortune Copy Share Image
