“Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
“If there were no magnanimity in war, we'd go to it only when it was worth going to certain death, as now.… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as… — Leo Tolstoy Religion Copy Share Image
“One step across the dividing line, so like the one between the living and the dead and you enter an unknown world… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people,—that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life… — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
“La energía se basa en el amor y no es posible adquirir amor a la fuerza.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“You wait a bit, wait a bit," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. "I've told you what I know, and… — Leo Tolstoy Luck Copy Share Image
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good… — Leo Tolstoy Add Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Depth Copy Share Image
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the… — Leo Tolstoy Clue Copy Share Image
“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“I consider jealousy to be insulting to you and degrading to me.” — Leo Tolstoy Jealousy Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Antagonism Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Easy to fall in love Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions… — Leo Tolstoy Spirituality Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Intellect Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Despair Copy Share Image
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith. — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Accepting Copy Share Image
What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world! — Leo Tolstoy Given Copy Share Image
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming… — Leo Tolstoy Chiefs Copy Share Image
“When he thought of her, he could call up a vivid picture of her to himself, especially the charm of that little… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
