Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — 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 most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — 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
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at… — 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
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason. — 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
