“Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to… — Leo Tolstoy Grass Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed pleasant and easy to Nikolai during the first part of his stay in Voronezh and, as generally happens when a… — Leo Tolstoy Psychology Copy Share Image
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is… — Leo Tolstoy Cause and effect Copy Share Image
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it… — Leo Tolstoy Clear Copy Share Image
“That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires;… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) -… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very… — Leo Tolstoy Dream Copy Share Image
“To every administrator, in peaceful, unstormy times, it seems that the entire population entrusted to him moves only by his efforts, and… — Leo Tolstoy Position of power Copy Share Image
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
“It is often said that the invention of terrible weapons of destruction will put an end to war. That is an error.… — Leo Tolstoy Extermination Copy Share Image
All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating… — Leo Tolstoy Adults Copy Share Image
“He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him… — Leo Tolstoy Judged Copy Share Image
“Faith is the strength of life. If a man lives he believes in something. If he did not believe that one must… — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“The next Post brought a reply from the starets, who wrote to him that the cause of all his trouble lay in… — Leo Tolstoy Humbled Copy Share Image
“I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
“For love? What antediluvian notions you have! Can one talk of love in these days?" said the ambassador's wife. "What's to be… — Leo Tolstoy Ambassador Copy Share Image
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me… — Leo Tolstoy Discovered Copy Share Image
“Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,'… — Leo Tolstoy I can Copy Share Image
“At times he would become so absorbed in reading, that all the kerosene in the lamp would burn out, and still he… — Leo Tolstoy Mind Copy Share Image
“So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We… — Leo Tolstoy Generosity Copy Share Image
The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one… — Leo Tolstoy Arise Copy Share Image
There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“A man is never such an egotist as at moments of spiritual ecstasy. At such times it seems to him that there… — Leo Tolstoy Egotist Copy Share Image
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person… — Leo Tolstoy Egoist Copy Share Image
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his… — Leo Tolstoy Circles Copy Share Image
“Ambition was the old dream of his youth and childhood, a dream which he did not confess even to himself, though it… — Leo Tolstoy Ambition Copy Share Image
We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And… — Leo Tolstoy Deceit Copy Share Image
“The faces of these young people, especially those who were militarymen, bore that expression of condescending respect for their elders which seems… — Leo Tolstoy Aging Copy Share Image
Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up… — Leo Tolstoy Body Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“To claim that the supernatural and irrational form the basic characteristics of religion is much the same as noticing only the rotten… — Leo Tolstoy Bitterness Copy Share Image
“I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination. Even when I can recall them,… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the… — Leo Tolstoy Entertainment Copy Share Image
“Her glance, the touch of her hand, set him aflame. He kissed the palm of his hand where she had touched it,… — Leo Tolstoy Gaze Copy Share Image
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that… — Leo Tolstoy Actors Copy Share Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
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