The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is bad? What is good? What should one love, what hate? Why live, and what am I? What is lie,what is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — 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
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial… — 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
