But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy 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 lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
