By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world… — 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
“And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. All life appeared to him like magic-lantern pictures at which he had long been gazing by artificial light through a glass. Now he suddenly saw those badly daubed pictures… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when we are alone, when we are one-on-one with our thoughts. A thought is a great force. This force finds its way out of a person through words, making one’s deeds a blessing or a curse, depending on whether… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his thoughts free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A thought can advance your life in the right direction only when it answers questions which were asked by your soul. A thought which was first borrowed from someone else and then accepted by your mind and memory does not really much influence your life, and sometimes leads you in the wrong direction. Read less, study less, but think more.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity of life, the arguments that revealed to me its meaninglessness, lived nonetheless, bringing to life a meaning of their own. Since the time when people somehow began to live, this meaning of life has been with them, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — 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 – your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one hour and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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 the opposite end of the ground. There was apparently nothing striking either in her dress or her attitude. But for Levin she was as easy to find in that crowd as a rose among nettles. Everything… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
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