World Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

— Leo Tolstoy

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

— Leo Tolstoy

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

— Leo Tolstoy

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

— Leo Tolstoy

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

— Leo Tolstoy

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

— Leo Tolstoy

Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

— Leo Tolstoy

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

— Leo Tolstoy

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be…

— Leo Tolstoy

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of…

— Leo Tolstoy

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

— Leo Tolstoy

One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what…

— Leo Tolstoy

The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something…

— Leo Tolstoy

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and…

— Leo Tolstoy

Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have…

— Leo Tolstoy

It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good…

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship…

— Leo Tolstoy

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating…

— Leo Tolstoy

He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station…

— Leo Tolstoy

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress…

— Leo Tolstoy

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to…

— Leo Tolstoy

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?”

— Leo Tolstoy

“All this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew which has grown up on a tiny planet.”

— Leo Tolstoy

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without…

— Leo Tolstoy

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

— Leo Tolstoy

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other…

— Leo Tolstoy

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world…

— Leo Tolstoy