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
“Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.” — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
“wisdom needs no violence...As it is we have played at war – that’s what’s vile! We play at magnanimity and all that… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
“Yet time and again, from different approaches, I kept coming to the same conclusion, that I could not have come into the… — Leo Tolstoy Different approach Copy Share Image
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which… — Leo Tolstoy Feet Copy Share Image
“He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were divided into two… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“it is a vicious circle. Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into… — Leo Tolstoy Coffins Copy Share Image
it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it. — Leo Tolstoy Way Copy Share Image
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard… — Leo Tolstoy Attainment Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those views… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“All men live not by what they intend for their own well being, but by the love that dwells in others.” — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational 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 Drink Tea Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy Easier Copy Share Image
