The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life. — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy Feds Copy Share Image
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Always happy Copy Share Image
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — Leo Tolstoy Enslavement Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The wife did not leave her own room, the husband had not been at home for three days. The children ran wild… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the… — Leo Tolstoy Humanity Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.” — Leo Tolstoy Unimportance Copy Share Image
“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only during a period of war does it become obvious how millions of people can be manipulated. People, millions of people, are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“... the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in… — Leo Tolstoy Autumn Copy Share Image
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Levin had often noticed in arguments between even the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, an enormous number of logical subtleties… — Leo Tolstoy Intelligent people Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when… — Leo Tolstoy Flower Copy Share Image
“Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience. — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving Copy Share Image