“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer… — Leo Tolstoy Daily life Copy Share Image
“I see that my presence is burdensome to you. Painful as it was for me to become convinced of it, I see… — Leo Tolstoy Alexei Copy Share Image
“Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts, and an enormous expenditure of logical subtleties… — Leo Tolstoy Intelligent people Copy Share Image
“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Grief 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
“There are two inevitable conditions of life, confronting all of us, which destroy its whole meaning; (1) death, which may at any… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Formerly, when I was told to consider him wise, I kept trying to, and thought I was stupid myself because I was… — Leo Tolstoy Idiot Copy Share Image
“The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most… — Leo Tolstoy Conceit Copy Share Image
School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people… — Leo Tolstoy Best friend Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Aim Copy Share Image
“As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him,… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Available Copy Share Image
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am that which thou hast searched for since thy baby eyes gazed wonderingly upon the world, whose horizon… — Leo Tolstoy Real life Copy Share Image
“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is… — Leo Tolstoy Agree Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Behave Copy Share Image
“Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected to be. At… — Leo Tolstoy Dreams Copy Share Image
“At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably… — Leo Tolstoy Danger Copy Share Image
“The memories of home and of her children rose up in her imagination with a peculiar charm quite new to her, with… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchism Copy Share Image
“I realized that I had been lost, and how I had become lost. I had strayed not so much because my ideas… — Leo Tolstoy Bad man Copy Share Image
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
“In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and… — Leo Tolstoy Class Copy Share Image
“...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given, such answers always give an infinite meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“When you carry your burden, you should know that it is good for you to have it. Make the best of this… — Leo Tolstoy Burden Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch's eyes twinkled gaily, and he pondered with a smile. "Yes, it was nice, very nice. There was a great deal… — Leo Tolstoy Every day Copy Share Image
“A Frenchman's self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishman's… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“Consider the death of the body in terms of God and His law. Your life, the life within you, encompasses everything within… — Leo Tolstoy Christian teaching Copy Share Image
“How strange, extraordinary, and joyful it was to her to think that her son - the little son, whose tiny limbs had… — Leo Tolstoy Brave man Copy Share Image
“The prison inspector and the warders, though they had never understood or gone into the meaning of these dogmas and of all… — Leo Tolstoy Dogma Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Animals Copy Share Image
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was… — Leo Tolstoy Ambitious Copy Share Image
“And therefore the Christian, who is subject only to the inner divine law, not only cannot carry out the enactments of the… — Leo Tolstoy Divine law Copy Share Image
“There was apparently nothing extraordinary in what she said, but what unutterable meaning there was for him in every sound, in every… — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
