The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — 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