If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
“It was that time of the year, the turning-point of summer, when the crops of the present year are a certainty, when… — Leo Tolstoy Next year Copy Share Image
“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with… — Leo Tolstoy Health Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Behinds Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of Christ, which teaches love, humility, and self-denial, had always attracted me. But I found a contrary law, both in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal instinct Copy Share Image
“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is. — Leo Tolstoy Compelled Copy Share Image
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Eye Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
“He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so… — Leo Tolstoy Argument Copy Share Image
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship… — Leo Tolstoy Agnosticism Copy Share Image
It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced. — Leo Tolstoy Has beens Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Deaf Copy Share Image
I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will… — Leo Tolstoy Angry Copy Share Image
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the… — Leo Tolstoy Hopeless romantic Copy Share Image
He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station… — Leo Tolstoy Consequence 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
War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move… — Leo Tolstoy Body Copy Share Image
“So they are even more frightened than we are,' he thought. 'Why, is this all that's meant by heroism? And did I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object… — Leo Tolstoy Activity Copy Share Image
“Answer me two more questions,’ said the King. ‘The first is, Why did the earth bear such grain then and has ceased… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
