“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted… — Leo Tolstoy Carnal Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Common sense Copy Share Image
“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“All the while my head would be filled with vivid dreams concerning the heroes of my last-read novel, and I would keep… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged… — Leo Tolstoy Insanity Copy Share Image
“And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 Compassion Copy Share Image
“Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You're not racing?" joked the officer. "Mine is a harder race," Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully. And though the reply did not mean… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there were exactly the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Free will Copy Share Image
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take… — Leo Tolstoy Amusing Copy Share Image
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov… — Leo Tolstoy Childhood Copy Share Image
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would… — Leo Tolstoy Absurd Copy Share Image
“What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“I can't praise a young lady who is alive only when people are admiring her, but as soon as she is left… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new… — Leo Tolstoy Drones Copy Share Image
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