If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at… — 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
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress… — 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
