Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — 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
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all. — 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
“I realized that I had been lost, and how I had become lost. I had strayed not so much because my ideas… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” — 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
