“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must… — Leo Tolstoy Religion Copy Share Image
When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was… — Leo Tolstoy Acting Copy Share Image
“As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted… — Leo Tolstoy Christian living Copy Share Image
“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life… — Leo Tolstoy Explaining-history Copy Share Image
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Forgiveness Copy Share Image
We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them. — Leo Tolstoy Done Copy Share Image
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else… — Leo Tolstoy Granted Copy Share Image
“What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I?… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. ” — Leo Tolstoy Money Copy Share Image
“In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked together, would be the… — Leo Tolstoy Language Copy Share Image
“He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“... the extraordinary autumn weather that always comes as a surprise, when the sun hangs low and gives more heat than in… — Leo Tolstoy Autumn Copy Share Image
“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Cold Copy Share Image
“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
“While I doubted, I had hope; but now there is no hope left and all the same I doubt everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
“Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone… — Leo Tolstoy Right way Copy Share Image
“Higher and higher receded the sky, wider and wider spread the streak of dawn, whiter grew the pallid silver of the dew,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image