I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — 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
