It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
In education, once more, the chief things are equality and freedom. — Leo Tolstoy Chiefs Copy Share Image
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. — Leo Tolstoy How to love Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.” — Leo Tolstoy Consequences Copy Share Image
You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy Existence Copy Share Image
“Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the… — Leo Tolstoy Hell Copy Share Image
“Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life.” — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able… — Leo Tolstoy 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 Carnal 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 Copy Share Image
“I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“The shore was God, the stream was tradition, and the oars were the free will given to me to make it to… — Leo Tolstoy Life 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 Common sense Copy Share Image
People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
“Pierre was for the first time at this meeting impressed by the endless multiplicity of men's minds, which leads to no truth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Eugene Iretnev was mentally deranged when he committed this crime, then everyone is similarly insane. The most mentally deranged… — Leo Tolstoy Insanity Copy Share Image
“It is just the same with the so-called criminals living in our midst. To bring these people under the sway of Christianity… — Leo Tolstoy Christian life Copy Share Image
“He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to hate him for that look.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called almost all of them by their Christian names: old… — Leo Tolstoy Old men Copy Share Image
“My friend was perfectly right, though it was not until long, long afterwards that experience of life taught me the evil that… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“On earth, here on this earth, there is no truth, all is false and evil; but in the universe, in the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now… — Leo Tolstoy Doubt Copy Share Image
I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined. — Leo Tolstoy Exercise Copy Share Image
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
“–Nadie está contento de su fortuna ni descontento de su inteligencia” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
