I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Being real Copy Share Image
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy Law Copy Share Image
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Argument Copy Share Image
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to love a woman who will never understand the profoundest interests of my life? Is it possible to love… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the… — Leo Tolstoy Argument Copy Share Image
“If there were no magnanimity in war, we'd go to it only when it was worth going to certain death, as now.… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Love..." she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at… — Leo Tolstoy Public opinion Copy Share Image
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Creation Copy Share Image
“One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Ali ljudi – veliki, odrasli ljudi – nisu prestajali da varaju i muče sami sebe i jedan drugoga. Ljudi su držali da… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence 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
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do… — 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
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her. — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Hate Copy Share Image
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy Instinct Copy Share Image
“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity” — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Facts Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“I think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
