Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary,… — Leo Tolstoy Inspirational Copy Share Image
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also… — Leo Tolstoy Bible Copy Share Image
“Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man… — Leo Tolstoy China Copy Share Image
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind…Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two aspects," Alexey Alexandrovitch resumed: "those who take part and those who look on; and love for such spectacles is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to… — Leo Tolstoy Family Copy Share Image
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he… — Leo Tolstoy Abstract Copy Share Image
“Does it ever happen to you," Natasha said to her brother, when they had settled in the sitting room, "does it ever… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all… — Leo Tolstoy Darkness Copy Share Image
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly.… — Leo Tolstoy Ecstasy Copy Share Image
“She saw that they felt themselves alone in that crowded room. And Vronsky’s face, always so firm and independent, held that look… — Leo Tolstoy Enchanting Copy Share Image
“Odurna je životinjska priroda zvjeri u čovjeku, ali kad je ona u čistom obliku, onda je ti s visine svog duševnog života… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You have a wholesome character, and you want all of life to made up of wholesome phenomena, but that doesn't happen... All… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty of life Copy Share Image
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it;… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of… — Leo Tolstoy Fashion Copy Share Image
“A better life can only come when the consciousness of men is altered for the better; and therefore, those who wish to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“in infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated",is to say nothing at all. Those are… — Leo Tolstoy 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
“In historical events great men - so-called - are but labels serving to give a name to the event, and like labels… — Leo Tolstoy Great men Copy Share Image
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing… — Leo Tolstoy Humor Copy Share Image
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the… — Leo Tolstoy Brilliant Copy Share Image
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in… — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful 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
“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
“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
“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