It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own:… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin). — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — 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
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