“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Human wisdom Copy Share Image
“The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must… — Leo Tolstoy Religion Copy Share Image
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your… — Leo Tolstoy Friend Copy Share Image
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. — Leo Tolstoy Achievement Copy Share Image
To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar… — Leo Tolstoy Little princess Copy Share Image
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck… — Leo Tolstoy Ashes Copy Share Image
“Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those… — Leo Tolstoy War Copy Share Image
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Company Copy Share Image
“When his daughters were born he had assigned to each of them, for her dowry, an estate with three hundred serfs; but… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity 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 Faith Copy Share Image
“Nicholas felt a dread of their wanting to take him away from surroundings in which, protected from all the entanglements of life,… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. — Leo Tolstoy Business Copy Share Image
“But what can I do?' - I answer those who speak thus. - '... must I therefore not point out the evil… — Leo Tolstoy Evil Copy Share Image
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.” — Leo Tolstoy Hatred Copy Share Image
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an… — Leo Tolstoy Anti capitalism Copy Share Image
“How strange it is that when I was a child I tried to be like a grownup, yet as soon as I… — Leo Tolstoy Boyhood Copy Share Image
“It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth. — Leo Tolstoy Christ Copy Share Image
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love. — Leo Tolstoy How to love Copy Share Image
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The most important acts, both for the one who accomplishes them and for his fellow creatures, are those that have remote consequences.” — Leo Tolstoy Consequences Copy Share Image
You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. — Leo Tolstoy Existence Copy Share Image
