“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Time Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“How horrified he would have been if, seven years ago, when he had just come from abroad, someone had told him that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in… — Leo Tolstoy Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Stop, or I’ll shoot!” cried the soldier. The fugitive, without stopping, turned his head and called out something evidently abusive or blasphemous.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of… — Leo Tolstoy After death Copy Share Image
“Well, what shall it be?” said Lubotshka, blinking in the sunlight and skipping about the grass, “Suppose we play Robinson?” “No, that’s… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Authority Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the… — Leo Tolstoy Straight line Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
“After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to… — Leo Tolstoy Little princess Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Mother Copy Share Image
“Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“Vasilisa had not seen her daughter for four years. Her daughter, Yefimya, had gone after her wedding to Petersburg, had sent them… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are you? What… — Leo Tolstoy Attraction Copy Share Image
“O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Wait, wait,' he began, interrupting Oblonsky. 'Aristocratism, you say. But allow me to ask, what makes up this aristocratism of Vronsky or… — Leo Tolstoy Aristocracy Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
“Oare nu e limpede, pentru toti in afara de mine, ca ma sfarsesc ? Si nu e vorba decat de saptamani, de… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Ignorance Copy Share Image
“But what is chance ? What is genius ? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and… — Leo Tolstoy Chance Copy Share Image
“When the body, washed and dressed, lay in the coffin on a table, everyone came to take leave of him and they… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion—science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. A Frenchman is self-assured… — Leo Tolstoy Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
“...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as… — Leo Tolstoy Religion Copy Share Image
“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Bears Copy Share Image
“One step beyond that boundary line which resembles the line dividing the living from the dead lies uncertainty, suffering, and death. And… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
![“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4c6/leo-tolstoy-55_accountability_not-in-order-to-justify-but-simply-in-or_623047.png)
