“Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.” — Leo Tolstoy Unnoticed Copy Share Image
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Deranged Copy Share Image
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is… — Leo Tolstoy Care Copy Share Image
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it… — Leo Tolstoy Illusion Copy Share Image
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy Human soul Copy Share Image
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without… — Leo Tolstoy Alive 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
He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation. — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Disappear Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are… — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not,… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more… — Leo Tolstoy Goodness Copy Share Image
“Berg, smiling pleasantly, explained that if he did not know for certain how much Vera would have and did not receive at… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even… — Leo Tolstoy Brave man Copy Share Image
“Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to each man’s life: his personal life, which is the more free the more abstract its interests, and… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers Copy Share Image
“Todas as mulheres são mais materialistas do que os homens. Nós fazemos do amor algo enorme, mas elas sempre se mantém ‘terre-à-terre’.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All” — Leo Tolstoy Danger Copy Share Image
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not… — Leo Tolstoy Free will Copy Share Image
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy Attitude Copy Share Image
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. — Leo Tolstoy Greatness 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
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Inoculation 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
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
“Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.” — Leo Tolstoy Dripped Quiet 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
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
“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
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
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
