“in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are… — 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… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“the children themselves repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Yet time and again, from different approaches, I kept coming to the same conclusion, that I could not have come into the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But in the course of the war they waged against the taiga, scorching it with fire, and attacking it with iron, Makar’s… — Leo Tolstoy 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“... and for the first time in his life the possibility of death presented itself, not in relation to the living world,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then as now much time was spent arguing about the rights of women, husband-and-wife relationships and freedom and rights within marriage, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Although these words of hers confirmed in me my conviction that I was not handsome, they also confirmed in me an ambition… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the same form. They were always expressed by… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — 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
“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said: "Who are you? What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Papa was a gentleman of the last century, with all the chivalrous character, self-reliance, and gallantry of the youth of that time.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“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
“He could not admit that he had known the truth then and was now mistaken, because as soon as he began to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I was wrong when I said that I did not regret the past. I do regret it; I weep for that past… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Much sand has run out since then, many recollections of the past have faded from my memory or become blurred in indistinct… — 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
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
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“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share
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