History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
“Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?” — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
“Did the Toyon not see that he, too, had been born like the others—with bright, open eyes, in which heaven and earth… — Leo Tolstoy Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“Let me speak at last,” she said. “For myself personally, I can’t conceive of love without family life. I am lonely, lonely… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
“If you love God with all your soul, then you know your life does not end with your death. They asked a… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy Crafts Copy Share Image
“I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there… — Leo Tolstoy Focus Copy Share Image
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are… — Leo Tolstoy Century Copy Share Image
“Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have… — Leo Tolstoy Long ago Copy Share Image
“Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Actual life Copy Share Image
I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get… — Leo Tolstoy Each day Copy Share Image
“Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Vasilisa had not seen her daughter for four years. Her daughter, Yefimya, had gone after her wedding to Petersburg, had sent them… — Leo Tolstoy Children 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
“As estrelas, como se soubessem que agora ninguém as observava, começaram a brincar no céu negro. Ora chamejavam, ora apagavam, ora tremeluziam,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Different Copy Share Image
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy Feds 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
