“I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.” — Leo Tolstoy Assure Copy Share Image
“The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence? — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. — Leo Tolstoy Better Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of… — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
“if the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Ambassador Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Discovered Copy Share Image
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is… — Leo Tolstoy Cause and effect Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way… — Leo Tolstoy Aspect Copy Share Image
“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner,… — Leo Tolstoy Habits Copy Share Image
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison,… — Leo Tolstoy Attractive Copy Share Image
“As the sun and each atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and yet at the same time only a… — leo tolstoy Human mind Copy Share Image
“Though men in their hundreds of thousands had tried their hardest to disfigure that little corner of the earth where they had… — Leo Tolstoy Men and women Copy Share Image
“But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich,… — Leo Tolstoy Class Copy Share Image
Slavery results from laws, laws are made by governments, and, therefore people can only be freed from slavery by the abolition of… — Leo Tolstoy Abolition Copy Share Image
Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 Dealings Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal instinct Copy Share Image
I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore. — Leo Tolstoy Anymore Copy Share Image
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy Finite Copy Share Image
I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me — Leo Tolstoy Apart Copy Share Image