The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In affirming my belief in Christ's teaching, I could not help explaining why I do not believe, and consider as mistaken, the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Not all will believe in my teaching. And they who will not believe, will hate it; because it bereaves them of that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Copy Share Image
“To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — 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
