“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Christian truth Copy Share Image
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to… — Leo Tolstoy 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
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she… — Leo Tolstoy Absurdity Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Anti war Copy Share Image
“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get… — Leo Tolstoy Difficult task Copy Share Image
“It was indeed terrible. And to rid myself of the terror I wished to kill myself. I experienced terror at what awaited… — Leo Tolstoy Suicide Copy Share Image
“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchy Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you could forget and forgive what happened." He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial… — Leo Tolstoy Forget and forgive Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Abdication Copy Share Image
“Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers grimm Copy Share Image
“In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith—a moment… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as some one has said,… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed,… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Anthropology Copy Share Image
“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and… — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"* *"Splendid if I… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar… — Leo Tolstoy Little princess Copy Share Image
“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck… — Leo Tolstoy Ashes Copy Share Image
![“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b01/leo-tolstoy-55_christian-truth_nothing-has-contributed-so-much-to-the-o_428484.png)
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