The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before… — Leo Tolstoy Goes on Copy Share Image
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the… — Leo Tolstoy Thought 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
“Love..." she repeated slowly, in a musing voice, and suddenly, while disentangling the lace, she added: "The reason I dislike this word… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man,… — Leo Tolstoy Antiwar Copy Share Image
“It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must… — Leo Tolstoy Agony Copy Share Image
Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal,… — Leo Tolstoy Certain Copy Share Image
“And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white… — Leo Tolstoy Clear day Copy Share Image
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying… — Leo Tolstoy Divine light Copy Share Image
“And what was worst of all was that *It* drew his attention to itself not in order to make him take some… — Leo Tolstoy Drew Attention Copy Share Image
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was… — Leo Tolstoy Acting Copy Share Image
“It would be good," thought Prince Andrei, glancing at the little image that his sister had hung around his neck with such… — Leo Tolstoy Compassion Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who… — Leo Tolstoy Born free Copy Share Image
“[Pierre] involuntarily started comparing these two men, so different and at the same time so similar, because of the love he had… — Leo Tolstoy Lived Died Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Connected Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power—the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns—should… — Leo Tolstoy Consent Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Brightness Copy Share Image
“It’s absurd that having started writing rules at fifteen, I should still be writing them at thirty, without having trusted in, or… — Leo Tolstoy Rules Writing Copy Share Image
When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the… — Leo Tolstoy Causes Copy Share Image
“You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“I endeavor to recall the happy comforting dreams interrupted by my returning to consciousness of reality, but to my astonishment so soon… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am… — Leo Tolstoy Choking Copy Share Image
“As though tears were the indispensable oil without which the machinery of mutual confidence could not run smoothly between the two sister,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
“No, you’re going in vain,” she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“Now she knew all of them as people know one another in a country town; she knew their habits and weaknesses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Habits 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
“How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions… — Leo Tolstoy Real power Copy Share Image
“This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
“There is nothing, nothing certain but the nothingness of all that is comprehensible to us, and the grandeur of something incomprehensible, but… — Leo Tolstoy Nothingness Copy Share Image
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of… — Leo Tolstoy Brutality Copy Share Image
We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what… — Leo Tolstoy Epic poems Copy Share Image
Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not… — Leo Tolstoy Christian Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was unpleasant for her to read, that is, to follow the reflection of other people’s… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
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