We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in… — 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
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — 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
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — 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
