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
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Accustomed 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
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“As often happens between people who have chosen different ways, each of them, while rationally justifying the other's activity, despised it in… — Leo Tolstoy Despised Copy Share Image
“When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not… — Leo Tolstoy Melting snow Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“We exchanged disagreeable remarks. The impression of this first quarrel was terrible. I say quarrel, but the term is inexact. It was… — Leo Tolstoy Quarrel 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
“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate… — Leo Tolstoy Cause Copy Share Image
“Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell… — Leo Tolstoy Antichrist Copy Share Image
“In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is… — Leo Tolstoy Bed of roses Copy Share Image
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in… — Leo Tolstoy Armenia Copy Share Image
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have… — Leo Tolstoy Details Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is Good? What should one love, what hate? Why live and what am I? What is life, what… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Conscience Copy Share Image
“They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most… — Leo Tolstoy Important Copy Share Image
“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy,… — Leo Tolstoy Jealous Copy Share Image
“show them, not in reasoning but in life itself, the joy of general union beyond the barriers set up by life itself” — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. — Leo Tolstoy Conditions Copy Share Image
“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life… — Leo Tolstoy Cause Copy Share Image
“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.” — Leo Tolstoy Felt Copy Share Image
“the education of women is apt to be confounded with the emancipation of women, and that it is only so that it… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! — Leo Tolstoy Break up Copy Share Image
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits. — Leo Tolstoy Clothes Copy Share Image
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
