“It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.” — Leo Tolstoy Education 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
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling... — Leo Tolstoy Feelings 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
“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
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
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
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people… — Leo Tolstoy Conjecture Copy Share Image
“Throughout the performance Levin felt like a deaf person watching a dance. He was quite perplexed when the music stopped and felt… — Leo Tolstoy Dance 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
“As estrelas, como se soubessem que agora ninguém as observava, começaram a brincar no céu negro. Ora chamejavam, ora apagavam, ora tremeluziam,… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in… — Leo Tolstoy Given Copy Share Image
excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of… — Leo Tolstoy Becoming Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“From another visitor to Yasnaya Polyana we learn that Tolstoy and his two daughters are vegetarians. The young countesses do not object… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Age 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 amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no one, though some of… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
“But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need… — Leo Tolstoy Religious Urge 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
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
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Admitting Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy I m sorry Copy Share Image
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. — Leo Tolstoy Hands Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Forbidden Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Allowing Copy Share Image
What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you… — Leo Tolstoy Come Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Destroyed Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy Appreciate Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Bigger Copy Share Image
“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
