I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I… — Leo Tolstoy Answers Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is… — Leo Tolstoy Spectacles Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
“Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man… — Leo Tolstoy China Copy Share Image
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also… — Leo Tolstoy Bible Copy Share Image
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord,… — Leo Tolstoy Cords Copy Share Image
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty.… — Leo Tolstoy Littles Copy Share Image
“Prije se znalo dogoditi da je slobodni mislilac bio čovjek, koji je bio odgojen u pojmovima vjere, zakona i morala, i koji… — Leo Tolstoy Ana-karenjina Copy Share Image
“who was it that had really sentenced him to death? Not the men on the commission that had first examined him—not one… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel… — Leo Tolstoy Adults Copy Share Image
“Thus the truth—that his life should be directed by the spiritual element which is its basis, which manifests itself as love, and… — Leo Tolstoy A-letter-to-a-hindu Copy Share Image
“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate… — Leo Tolstoy Cause Copy Share Image
“S., a clever and truthful man, once told me the story of how he ceased to believe. On a hunting expedition, when… — Leo Tolstoy Adventure Copy Share Image
“With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness.… — Leo Tolstoy Confession Copy Share Image
“He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspected him of being unfaithful to… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
“Arrived at the Kalinovo wood, we found the carriage awaiting us there, with, beside it, a one-horse waggonette driven by the butler… — Leo Tolstoy Coffee 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
“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we… — Leo Tolstoy Confused Copy Share Image
“In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If,… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Adolescence Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was… — Leo Tolstoy Hatred Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Battlefields Copy Share Image
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint… — Leo Tolstoy Bags Copy Share Image
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — Leo Tolstoy Every man Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once… — Leo Tolstoy Devote Copy Share Image
“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“I was only a year and some odd months younger than Woloda, and from the first we had grown up and studied… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
“So it would be, were it not for the law of inertia, as immutable a force in men and nations as in… — Leo Tolstoy Principle Copy Share Image
“I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. What I… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Thoughts and emotions Copy Share Image
