A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Authority Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Happy man Copy Share Image
“Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Ethics Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his thoughts free,… — Leo Tolstoy Suddenly Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,’ he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a… — Leo Tolstoy Painting Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining… — Leo Tolstoy Red lips Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Was it not youth, the feeling he experienced now, when, coming out to the edge of the wood again from the other… — Leo Tolstoy Old wood Copy Share Image
“I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a tattered coat and… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Pray only thus: Our Father, without beginning and without end, like the heavens! May Thy being alone be holy. May power be… — Leo Tolstoy Heavens Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at… — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
“And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in… — Leo Tolstoy Justice 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
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked… — Leo Tolstoy Affectionate Copy Share Image
“For days neither provisions for the men nor fodder for the horses had been issued. As no transports could arrive, the men… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's madness simply meant that he didn't wait, as in days gone by, for people to show personal qualities, what he might… — Leo Tolstoy Madness Copy Share Image
“If we’re laying out a garden, planning one before the house, you know, and there you’ve a tree that’s stood for centuries… — Leo Tolstoy Flower Copy Share Image
“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former… — Leo Tolstoy Born free Copy Share Image
“But when she got up it was quite light, and it turned out to be half past nine. There had been a… — Leo Tolstoy Anna Copy Share Image
“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden?… — Leo Tolstoy Hope Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make… — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Acceleration Copy Share Image
