People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is… — 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
But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this… — 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
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — 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
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — 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
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
