All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Anarchist Copy Share Image
Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. — Leo Tolstoy Government Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Good Copy Share Image
“Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.” — Leo Tolstoy Consciously Copy Share Image
Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her. — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and… — Leo Tolstoy Born 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
“I'll come some day," he said. "But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way… — Leo Tolstoy Things Bad Copy Share Image
“the superfluity of the comforts of like destroys all joy in satisfying one's needs, while great freedom in the choice of occupation...is… — Leo Tolstoy Career Copy Share Image
“Although on a conscious level a man lives for himself, he is actually being used for the attainment of humanity's historical aims.… — Leo Tolstoy Humanity Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract… — Leo Tolstoy Capable Copy Share Image
If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no… — Leo Tolstoy Dismayed Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“According to the biblical tradition the absence of work -- idleness -- was a condition of the first man's state of blessedness… — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the… — Leo Tolstoy Freedom Copy Share Image
“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I… — Leo Tolstoy Music Copy Share Image
In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“All the while my head would be filled with vivid dreams concerning the heroes of my last-read novel, and I would keep… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all! — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not… — Leo Tolstoy Facts Copy Share Image
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as… — Leo Tolstoy Burning Copy Share Image
Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves… — Leo Tolstoy Hate Copy Share Image
“happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity” — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy — Leo Tolstoy Instinct Copy Share Image
“It seems that only God can know the truth; it is to Him alone we must appeal, and from Him alone expect… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
“I think … if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love as… — Leo Tolstoy Hearts Copy Share Image
“The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.” — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
“Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... — Leo Tolstoy Approach Copy Share Image
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things — Leo Tolstoy Doe Copy Share Image
“A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure.” — Leo Tolstoy Cigar Copy Share Image
“I killed the wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed my wife.” — Leo Tolstoy Killed Copy Share Image
“strangers in everything: different tastes, views, everything; but I know that you love me and understand me, and for that I love… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
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