If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
“Bethink yourselves whether it is righteous to obey man more than God,” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“intriguing people have to invent a noxious, dangerous party...” — leo tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“What energy!' I thought. 'Man has conquered everything, and destroyed millions of plants, yet this one won't submit.” — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who… — Leo Tolstoy Men Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be either complete discord between the spouses or loving… — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step! — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that,… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she always has enemies, and always… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, with his usual assurance that whatever entered his head was right, wrote to Kutuzov the first words that occurred to him,… — Leo Tolstoy Confidence Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I am that which thou hast searched for since thy baby eyes gazed wonderingly upon the world, whose horizon… — Leo Tolstoy Real life Copy Share Image
“How many trials and tribulations we have to go through in order to enjoy them as they are now! And even now,… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people… — Leo Tolstoy Best friend Copy Share Image
“As it was before, so it was now; I need only be aware of God to live; I need only forget Him,… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness — Leo Tolstoy Effort Copy Share Image
The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless. — Leo Tolstoy Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“They had to return to the one sure and never-failing resource- slander.” — Leo Tolstoy Slander Copy Share Image
