Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
“but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“But when, as is most often the case, the husband and wife accept the external obligation to live together all their lives… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen” — Leo Tolstoy Peace Copy Share Image
But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove… — Leo Tolstoy Causes Copy Share Image
“Ružan čin možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli rađaju isključivo ružne čini. Ružan čin… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Firsts Copy Share Image
“knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the place where… — Leo Tolstoy Commander in chief Copy Share Image
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy Degrees Copy Share Image
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness.… — Leo Tolstoy Confession Copy Share Image
“Mamma was playing Field’s second concerto. Field, it may be said, had been her master. As I dozed, the music brought up… — Leo Tolstoy Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“there was a new feature in Pierre which won him the favor of all people: this was the recognition of the possibility… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
“who was it that had really sentenced him to death? Not the men on the commission that had first examined him—not one… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at… — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Anniversary 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,… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — Leo Tolstoy Epic poems Copy Share Image
