“if the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.' — Leo Tolstoy Express yourself Copy Share Image
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. — Leo Tolstoy If you love me Copy Share Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy Circumstances Copy Share Image
“Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity… — Leo Tolstoy Capacity Copy Share Image
“Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But… — Leo Tolstoy Human error Copy Share Image
“the most minute accuracy in my mind, while Mamma’s face and attitude escape me entirely. It may be that it is because… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where… — Leo Tolstoy Eye Copy Share Image
Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness 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
“Tushin did not tell him that there were no covering troops, though that was the plain truth. He was afraid to let… — Leo Tolstoy Ethics-and-morality Copy Share Image
“People often think the question of non-resistance to evil by force is a theoretical one, which can be neglected. Yet this question… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not founded on observations of the seen… — Leo Tolstoy Heavens Relation Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always clear whom you love. But… — Leo Tolstoy Girl Copy Share Image
In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that… — Leo Tolstoy And love Copy Share Image
“We talked of a future life, of art, service, marriage, and education; nor did the idea ever occur to us that very… — Leo Tolstoy Art 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
“When the examination was over, the doctor looked at his watch, and then Praskovya Fyodorovna informed Ivan Ilyich that it must of… — Leo Tolstoy Doctor Looked Copy Share Image
“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of… — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Being real Copy Share Image
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy Law Copy Share Image
“the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” — Leo Tolstoy Meek Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to… — Leo Tolstoy Given Copy Share Image
I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of… — Leo Tolstoy Dawn 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 Dwells Copy Share Image
The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!” — Leo Tolstoy Judging Copy Share Image
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Accept Copy Share Image
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Character Copy Share Image
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents. — Leo Tolstoy Accidents Copy Share Image
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her husband is dead.” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
