Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next? — Leo Tolstoy Arise Copy Share Image
Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that… — Leo Tolstoy Abolish Copy Share Image
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves… — Leo Tolstoy Bread Copy Share Image
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you… — Leo Tolstoy Childhood Copy Share Image
“The doctor arrived towards dinnertime and said, of course, that although recurring phenomena might well elicit apprehension, nonetheless there was, strictly speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the… — Leo Tolstoy Day and night Copy Share Image
You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking. — Leo Tolstoy Asking Copy Share Image
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of… — Leo Tolstoy Execution Copy Share Image
“man has retained a love of idleness, but the curse weighs on the race not only because we have to seek our… — Leo Tolstoy Inner voice Copy Share Image
“Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy Attitude Copy Share Image
There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end-… — Leo Tolstoy Despair Copy Share Image
“Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within oneself of the highest universal principle… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the… — Leo Tolstoy Attention Copy Share Image
“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible. — Leo Tolstoy Character 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
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered. Scarcely” — Leo Tolstoy Medicine Copy Share Image
