Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, who liked a joke, was fond of puzzling a plain man by saying that if he prided himself on his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. He remembered how carefully and at what length… — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“If you could forget and forgive what happened." He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial… — Leo Tolstoy Forget and forgive Copy Share Image
“If there is a God and future life, there is truth and good, and man's highest happiness consists in striving to attain… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Abdication Copy Share Image
“Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob… — Leo Tolstoy Brothers grimm Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Authority Copy Share Image
“After dinner Natasha went to the clavichord, at Prince Andrey's request, and began singing. Prince Andrey stood at the window, talking to… — Leo Tolstoy Little princess Copy Share Image
“This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line which will be the… — Leo Tolstoy Straight line Copy Share Image
“He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
“He knew that Vronsky could not be prevented from amusing himself with painting; he knew that he and all dilettanti had a… — Leo Tolstoy Painting Copy Share Image
“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining… — Leo Tolstoy Red lips Copy Share Image
“Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“He had known at the bottom of his heart that he would see her here today. But to keep his thoughts free,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will… — Leo Tolstoy Conception Copy Share Image
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one… — Leo Tolstoy Admiration Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort” — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“And the dog you're taking with you will be no help to you. You can't get away from yourselves.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable. — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
