Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — 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 you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — 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
