Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is… — Leo Tolstoy Heroine Copy Share Image
“Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But, as always happens after death, his face had grown handsomer, more dignified—more distinguished, in short, than it had ever been in… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical… — Leo Tolstoy Philosophical 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
“It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the… — Leo Tolstoy Resurrection Copy Share Image
“There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are… — Leo Tolstoy Evil Copy Share Image
“one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The same talk, the same thoughts, and always about the same things! And they are all satisfied and confident that it should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their… — Leo Tolstoy Belief 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 Cruelty Copy Share Image
“You do not admit the conceivability at all?' he queried. 'But why not? We admit the existence of electricity, of which we… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“Suppose a problem in psychology was set: What can be done to persuade the men of our time — Christians, humanitarians or,… — Leo Tolstoy Government service Copy Share Image
“Every man, knowing to the smallest detail all the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these… — Leo Tolstoy Complexity 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 Copy Share Image
“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Ignorance Copy Share Image
Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
“I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions… — Leo Tolstoy Angry Copy Share Image
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
“As Sterne says: ‘We don’t love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend was nothing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had… — Leo Tolstoy Suffering Copy Share Image
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but… — Leo Tolstoy Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.” — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
“Bütün kadınlar erkeklerden daha maddecidir. Biz aşktan muazzam bir şey yaparız, onlarsa her zaman terre-a-terre.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy Flattery Copy Share Image
