School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — 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
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for… — 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
…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
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
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 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
