“...the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There never has been and cannot be a good life without self-control. Apart from self-control no good life is imaginable.” — 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
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The great natural forces lie outside us and we are not conscious of them: we call those forces gravitation, inertia, electricity, animal… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Isn't it distinctly to be seen in the development of each philosopher's theory, that he knows what is the chief significance of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which means I must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You do not admit the conceivability at all?' he queried. 'But why not? We admit the existence of electricity, of which we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything… — 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
