The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — Leo Tolstoy Earth Copy Share Image
“Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely” — Leo Tolstoy Medicine Copy Share Image
“I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me which directs me. I suffer; but formerly I was… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken… — Leo Tolstoy Relationship Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Peace Copy Share Image
“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have… — Leo Tolstoy Doctor Copy Share Image
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I cannot think of those years without horror, loathing and heartache. I killed men in war and challenged men to duels in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only Anna was sad. She knew that now, from Dolly's departure, no one again would stir up within her soul the feelings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sympathy, love for one's brothers, for those who love us, love for those who hate us, love for our enemies, yes, the… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy Magnanimity Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Admiration Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
“La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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