“It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
“The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... — Leo Tolstoy Approach Copy Share Image
“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy Cigar Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Antiwar Copy Share Image
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the… — Leo Tolstoy Thought Copy Share Image
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt… — Leo Tolstoy Dance Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation, but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to realize this and not make a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Never, never marry, my dear fellow! That's my advice: never marry till you can say to yourself that you have done all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility… — Leo Tolstoy Pierre Copy Share Image
“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It would be good," thought Prince Andrei, glancing at the little image that his sister had hung around his neck with such… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
“I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Born free Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of… — Leo Tolstoy Dawn Copy Share Image
“If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Accidents Copy Share Image
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
“I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Government Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
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