To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at… — Leo Tolstoy Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life's impossible; and that I can't know, and so I can't live,"… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. — Leo Tolstoy Failure Copy Share Image
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to… — Leo Tolstoy Every morning Copy Share Image
“When you understand that you will die tomorrow, if not today, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“My brother's death: wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than… — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
“If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that he considered… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“The study was slowly lit up as the candle was brought in. The familiar details came out: the stag's horns, the bookshelves,… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.… — Leo Tolstoy Good man Copy Share Image
“At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so real melted away now… — Leo Tolstoy Bad breath Copy Share Image
“Did he suffer very much?" asked Pyotr Ivanovich. "Oh, awfully! For the last moments, hours indeed, he never left off screaming. For… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in… — Leo Tolstoy Parenting Copy Share Image
“And then what happens to all of us every day happened to him—he fell asleep without knowing himself when or how. He… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“She doesn’t stand up because her legs are too short. She’s a very bad figure.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.” — Leo Tolstoy Medicine Copy Share Image
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation -… — Leo Tolstoy Consolation Copy Share Image
Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” — Leo Tolstoy Divine Copy Share Image
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me… — Leo Tolstoy Atheism Copy Share Image
“The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Believing that one person can improve another person’s life through force is a mistake. Violence” — Leo Tolstoy Crime Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. — Leo Tolstoy Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive mad (Latin).” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
