“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
…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. — 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 realized that I had been lost, and how I had become lost. I had strayed not so much because my ideas… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“However, the truth requires one to make an effort if one is to be freed from misconceptions and lies. You” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the… — 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
“She was utterly unlike what she had been when he first saw her. Both morally and physically she had changed for the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And… — 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
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Germans are self-confident on the basis of an abstract notion—science, that is, the supposed knowledge of absolute truth. A Frenchman is self-assured… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have… — 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
