“The strongest proof that in the name of “science” we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a… — Leo Tolstoy Human development Copy Share Image
“As a man cannot lift a mountain, and as a kindly man cannot kill an infant, so a man living the Christian… — Leo Tolstoy Christian life Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Christian truth Copy Share Image
“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in… — Leo Tolstoy Daily life Copy Share Image
“Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but… — Leo Tolstoy Dolly Copy Share Image
“Reasoning led him into doubt and kept him from seeing what he should and should not do. Yet when he did not… — Leo Tolstoy Suicide Copy Share Image
“I think love, both kinds of love, which you remember Plato defines in his "Symposium" - both kinds of love serve a… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“They come together, like tomorrow, to kill each other they slaughter and maim tens of thousands of men, and the they say… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Bees Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to understand art to be only what we hear and see in theaters, concerts, and exhibitions, together with buildings,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Accepting Copy Share Image
“Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Grass Copy Share Image
“I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are,… — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the… — Leo Tolstoy Thought Copy Share Image
“After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to… — Leo Tolstoy Little princess Copy Share Image
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even… — Leo Tolstoy Ifs Copy Share Image
