Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power. — 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
Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." -… — 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
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — 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,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — 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
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — 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
