The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — 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
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
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
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — 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
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? — 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
