The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life. — 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
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what… — 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
Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But there was something in her higher than what surrounded her. There was in her the glow of the real diamond among… — 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
