True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without… — Leo Tolstoy Alive 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
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Appreciation Copy Share Image
“without knowing who I am and why I’m here it is impossible to live. Yet I cannot know that and therefore I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love. — Leo Tolstoy Believe Copy Share Image
“You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always clear whom you love. But… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be… — Leo Tolstoy Ifs Copy Share Image
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy Achievement Copy Share Image
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
“Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers grimm Copy Share Image
“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
“If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded… — Leo Tolstoy Child Copy Share Image
“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself… — Leo Tolstoy Family-happiness Copy Share Image
“Oare nu e limpede, pentru toti in afara de mine, ca ma sfarsesc ? Si nu e vorba decat de saptamani, de… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But if you are alive—live: tomorrow you'll die as I might have died an hour ago. And is it worth tormenting oneself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Thoughts and emotions 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
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Accepting Copy Share Image
