History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what… — 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
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. — 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
![“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the worse. [...] He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba3/leo-tolstoy-55_humanity_she-was-utterly-unlike-what-she-had-been_2131592.jpg)
