“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own — Leo Tolstoy Forget Copy Share Image
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the… — Leo Tolstoy Divinity Copy Share Image
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“She was jealous not of any particular woman but of the decrease of his love. Not having an object for her jealousy,… — Leo Tolstoy Jealousy Copy Share Image
“I'll come some day," he said. "But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon. Things are in a bad way… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.… — Leo Tolstoy Brave man Copy Share Image
“What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am I? A… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated. — Leo Tolstoy Casinos Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy I can Copy Share Image
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness 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
At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when… — Leo Tolstoy Able Copy Share Image
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still… — Leo Tolstoy Childhood Copy Share Image
“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life… — Leo Tolstoy Face to face Copy Share Image
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. — Leo Tolstoy Corruption Copy Share Image
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy Finite Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful… — Leo Tolstoy Absolute power Copy Share Image
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to… — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
