Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Accomplish Copy Share Image
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who… — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the… — Leo Tolstoy Accustomed Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures” — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Criteria Copy Share Image
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... — Leo Tolstoy Feelings 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 Creation Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Blessings Copy Share Image
ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life… — Leo Tolstoy Difficult Copy Share Image
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 Embrace Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Different 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 Feel Copy Share Image
“Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Arrived at the Kalinovo wood, we found the carriage awaiting us there, with, beside it, a one-horse waggonette driven by the butler… — Leo Tolstoy Coffee Copy Share Image
“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Confused Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Adolescence Copy Share Image
“Prije se znalo dogoditi da je slobodni mislilac bio čovjek, koji je bio odgojen u pojmovima vjere, zakona i morala, i koji… — Leo Tolstoy Ana-karenjina 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
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Adults Copy Share Image
“Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and… — Leo Tolstoy A-letter-to-a-hindu Copy Share Image
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.” — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“He stepped down trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, yet he saw her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Affection Copy Share Image
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Dear Copy Share Image
“Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemiņus, un es nemaz negaidu ciemiņus, un nekas nav noticis, bet es lūdzu jūs aizbraukt” — Leo Tolstoy Mint Copy Share Image
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy Folly Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Compelled Copy Share Image
“He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.” — Leo Tolstoy Laid Copy Share Image
Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Century Copy Share Image
“Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.” — Leo Tolstoy Dripped Quiet Copy Share Image
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism. — Leo Tolstoy Acid Copy Share Image
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings,… — Leo Tolstoy Blessed Copy Share Image
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“Yes, they’re splendid, splendid youngsters,” declared the Count, who settled all perplexing questions by deciding that everything was splendid.” — Leo Tolstoy Splendid Youngsters Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Inoculation Copy Share Image
