…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Greatness Copy Share Image
Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief,… — Leo Tolstoy Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had heard that women often did care for ugly and ordinary men, but he did not believe it, for he judged… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully,… — Leo Tolstoy Incarceration Copy Share Image
“What is precious is not the reward but the work. And I wish you to understand that. If you work and study… — Leo Tolstoy Reward Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — 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
“My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said to myself, "the nowledge of faith… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“The soul of man is the lamp of God,’ says a wise Jewish proverb. Man is a weak and miserable creature when… — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
“As he looked round, she too turned her head .Her shining gray eyes, that looked dark from the thick lashes, rested with… — Leo Tolstoy Gray eyes Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Attraction 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
“Anna Pavlovna turned toward him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his indiscretion, nodded and said: “I hope to… — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate… — Leo Tolstoy Candle Copy Share Image
“One's writing is good only when the intelligence and the imagination are in equilibrium. As soon as one of them overbalances the… — Leo Tolstoy Imagination Copy Share Image
“I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was much changed and grown even thinner since Pyotr Ivanovich had last seen him, but, as is always the case with… — Leo Tolstoy Last Seen Copy Share Image
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I… — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Accomplishment Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“Prince Andrei was one of the best dancers of his day. Natasha danced exquisitely. Her little feet in their satin dancing shoes… — Leo Tolstoy Dance Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial… — Leo Tolstoy Comfort Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Evil Copy Share Image
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other… — Leo Tolstoy Depravity Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The same talk, the same thoughts, and always about the same things! And they are all satisfied and confident that it should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Civilization Copy Share Image
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