Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy Difficulty Copy Share Image
Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is… — Leo Tolstoy Caught Copy Share Image
Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is… — Leo Tolstoy Writing Copy Share Image
“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?” — Leo Tolstoy Language Copy Share Image
“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical… — Leo Tolstoy Philosophy Copy Share Image
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them;… — Leo Tolstoy Ashamed Copy Share Image
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. — Leo Tolstoy Abnormal 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
“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it… — Leo Tolstoy Military service 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” — Leo Tolstoy Divine Copy Share Image
“Although Vasili Andreevich felt quite warm in his two fur coats, especially after struggling in the snow drift, a cold shiver ran… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Religion Copy Share Image
“Does it ever happen to you," Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, "does it ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
“Next morning, when Semyon woke up, the children were still asleep and his wife had gone over to the neighbour's to borrow… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“It was one of the most commonest and most widespread misconceptions that every person has a fixed set of qualities; he is… — Leo Tolstoy Vice versa Copy Share Image
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Common sense Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
