Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — 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 can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he… — 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
“Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But what is chance ? What is genius ? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — 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
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
