“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.” — Leo Tolstoy Fictional character Copy Share Image
Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. — Leo Tolstoy Judgment Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving Copy Share Image
“Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” — Leo Tolstoy Learning Copy Share Image
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchy Copy Share Image
By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich — Leo Tolstoy Alexis Copy Share Image
“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...” — Leo Tolstoy Grandparents Copy Share Image
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is… — Leo Tolstoy Baby Copy Share Image
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that what we call beauty in a face lies in the smile: if the smile heightens the charm… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Habits Copy Share Image
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was… — Leo Tolstoy Ambitious Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Divine law Copy Share Image
“How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Dogma Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Animals Copy Share Image
“There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every… — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and… — Leo Tolstoy Nature of man Copy Share Image