To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina} — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — 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
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — 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
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — 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
