“Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Leo Tolstoy Fitness Copy Share Image
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy Desire 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
“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
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the… — Leo Tolstoy Hopeless romantic Copy Share Image
“He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...” — Leo Tolstoy Grandparents Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a clever person, you have to learn how to ask cleverly, how to listen attentively, how to… — Leo Tolstoy Clever Copy Share Image
“Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to demonstrate. She obviously could see that her… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“You take Seryozha to hurt me,” she said, looking at him from under her brows. “You do not love him. . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed, she could not even find thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Feelings Copy Share Image
I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
“Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was… — Leo Tolstoy Artificial life Copy Share Image
“Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure! Alabin was giving… — Leo Tolstoy Dinner Copy Share Image
“De la o vreme, Ivan Ilici isi petrecea mai tot timpul incercand sa retraiasca clipele de odinioara, cand vechile sentimente il tinusera… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“Each one of us has to save his own soul, and has to do God's work himself, but instead of that we… — Leo Tolstoy Bible Copy Share Image
“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth… — Leo Tolstoy Heaven and earth 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
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
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy Patience Copy Share Image
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
