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
“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
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
“I must ask what it is you want of me?" "What can I want? All I can want is that you should… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“Ca era dimineata ori seara, vineri ori duminica ― ii era totuna; era la fel, aceeasi durere surda, chinuitoare, care nu-l lasa… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man,… — Leo Tolstoy Bees Copy Share Image
“The girls noticed that Volodia, who was generally so talkative and gay, seldom spoke now and never smiled and on the whole… — Leo Tolstoy Sisters Copy Share Image
“The latter part of her stay in Voronezh had been the happiest period in Princess Marya's life. Her love for Rostov was… — Leo Tolstoy Beloved Copy Share Image
“The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises and by taking good care of his body he… — Leo Tolstoy Fitness Copy Share Image
“Andrei Khrisanfitch returned to his room to smoke a little till there was another ring at the door, and Yefimya ceased speaking,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“them reminded him of all he had experienced and learned during these weeks and this recollection was pleasant to him. For some… — Leo Tolstoy Autumn Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy 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
I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was… — Leo Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
“Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and… — Leo Tolstoy Conviction Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.… — Leo Tolstoy Anthropology Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Himmlisch ist's, wenn ich bezwugen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nicht gelungen, Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!"* *"Splendid if I… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love… — Leo Tolstoy Alone in love Copy Share Image
“In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has reached its zenith—a moment… — Leo Tolstoy Love Copy Share Image
“But I'm married, and believe me, in getting to know thoroughly one's wife, if one loves her, as some one has said,… — Leo Tolstoy Marriage Copy Share Image
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed,… — Leo Tolstoy Children Copy Share Image
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and… — Leo Tolstoy 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 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)
