“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as… — 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
“Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — 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
“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — 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
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — 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
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This was his acknowledgment of the impossibility of changing a man's convictions by words, and his recognition of the possibility of everyone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of it. 'If it was done with such assurance and everyone thought it was necessary, then they must have known something I didn't,' was what I thought, and I tried to find out what it was. But I couldn't,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or, simply, kindhearted people — into committing the most abominable crimes with no feeling of guilt? There could be only one way: to do precisely what is being done now, namely, to make them governors, inspectors, officers, policemen, and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“There are moments when the future looks so black that one is afraid to let one's thoughts dwell on it, refuses to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It will readily be understood that Nechludoff’s influence caused me to adopt his bent of mind, the essence of which lay in an enthusiastic reverence for ideal virtue and a firm belief in man’s vocation to perpetual perfection. To raise mankind, to abolish vice and misery, seemed at that time a task offering no difficulties. To educate oneself to every… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“MAN’S MIND cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s soul. And without considering the multiplicity and complexity of the conditions any one of which taken separately may seem to be the cause, he snatches at the first approximation to a cause that seems to him intelligible and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these… — 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
