The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life. — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy Feds Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of… — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Being real Copy Share Image
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy Law Copy Share Image
“the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” — Leo Tolstoy Meek Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) -… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Falsity Copy Share Image
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal… — Leo Tolstoy Animal life Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Habits 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 Aspect Copy Share Image
“For the first time I envisaged the idea that we - that is, our family - were not the only people in… — Leo Tolstoy Another life Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Dealings Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was a truthful man in his relations with himself. He was incapable of deceiving himself and persuading himself that he… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is… — Leo Tolstoy Qualities Copy Share Image
“How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of… — Leo Tolstoy Assignment Copy Share Image
