Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — 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
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“if the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after… — Leo Tolstoy Cigar Copy Share Image
“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is… — Leo Tolstoy Cause and effect Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Ambassador Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Class Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Another life Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
“At one point, in the east, the mists grew lighter and were clad in gold, like warriors. Then the mists swayed, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a… — leo tolstoy Human mind Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
