“Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of… — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.' — Leo Tolstoy Express yourself Copy Share Image
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. — Leo Tolstoy If you love me Copy Share Image
“the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Tolstoy Being real Copy Share Image
“Only now did Pierre understand the full force of human vitality and the saving power of the shifting of attention that has… — Leo Tolstoy Pierre Copy Share Image
Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of… — Leo Tolstoy Execution Copy Share Image
“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much… — Leo Tolstoy Christian truth Copy Share Image
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“On the twelfth of June, the forces of Western Europe crossed the borders of Russia, and war began--that is, an event took… — Leo Tolstoy Human nature Copy Share Image
“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did not succeed in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the… — Leo Tolstoy Mother Copy Share Image
“With the smugness of an end man on parade, he bounced along on his sinewy legs, effortlessly marching to attention, floating with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“All he knew and felt was that what was happening was what had happened nearly a year before in the hotel of… — Leo Tolstoy Grief Copy Share Image
“The rivalry of the European states in constantly increasing their forces has reduced them to the necessity of having recourse to universal… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable. — Leo Tolstoy Law Copy Share Image
“But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
“if the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been.” — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no… — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal. — Leo Tolstoy Energy Copy Share Image
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Human life Copy Share Image
“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
![“nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of [non-resistance] by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/leo-tolstoy-55_christian-truth_nothing-has-contributed-so-much-to-the-o_428484.png)
