“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and… — Leo Tolstoy Aspirations Copy Share Image
Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. — Leo Tolstoy Age Copy Share Image
“Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a… — Leo Tolstoy Adultery Copy Share Image
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“Our business is to do our duty, to cut and slash, not to think, that’s all,” he concluded.” — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be… — Leo Tolstoy Deeds Copy Share Image
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the… — Leo Tolstoy Anniversary Copy Share Image
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Christianity, expecting from its adherents gentleness, meekness, peaceableness, forgiveness of injuries, turning the other cheek when one is struck, and love for… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Anarchy Copy Share Image
“But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has been done here? Why was… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Love hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression… — Leo Tolstoy Depression Copy Share Image
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live… — Leo Tolstoy Conscience Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is very likely that I shall be killed tomorrow,’ he thought. And suddenly at this thought of death a whole… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
“The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Ethics Copy Share Image
“We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a… — Leo Tolstoy Friendship Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was real hatred - not the hatred we only read about in novels, which I do not believe in, hatred… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“In the past he had been unable to see the great, teh unfathomable, the infinite, in anything. He had only felt that… — Leo Tolstoy Existentialism Copy Share Image
“I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a tattered coat and… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. — Leo Tolstoy Eternity Copy Share Image
“He used to say that there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—activity and intelligence.” — Leo Tolstoy Idleness Copy Share Image
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy Blasphemy Copy Share Image
“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good… — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy Book Copy Share Image
Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always… — Leo Tolstoy Anger Copy Share Image
“She repeated continually, "My God! my God!" But neither "God" nor "my" had any meaning to her.” — Leo Tolstoy 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
“And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him” — Leo Tolstoy Destruction Copy Share Image
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume… — Leo Tolstoy Christian 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
