No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are… — Leo Tolstoy Amusement Copy Share Image
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if Evgeny Irtenev was mentally ill, then all people are just as mentally ill, and the most mentally ill are… — Leo Tolstoy Madness Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I say that the God who created the world in six days and who sent His son, and also his son himself,… — Leo Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he… — Leo Tolstoy Learning Copy Share Image
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you.… — Leo Tolstoy Despair Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's awful! oh dear, oh dear! awful!" Stepan Arkadyevitch kept repeating to himself, and he could think of nothing to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let me speak at last,” she said. “For myself personally, I can’t conceive of love without family life. I am lonely, lonely… — Leo Tolstoy Family life Copy Share Image
Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I recalled the hundreds of occasions when life had died within me only to be reborn. I remembered that I only lived… — Leo Tolstoy Belief in god Copy Share Image
Seas of blood have been shed for the sake of patriotism. One would expect the harm and irrationality of patriotism to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“MAN’S MIND cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find those causes is implanted in man’s… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think it delightful too," I said; "but I am sad just because of the beauty of it all. All is so… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“Yes: if only a hundredth of the efforts spent in curing diseases were spent in curing debauchery, disease would long ago have… — Leo Tolstoy Doctor Copy Share Image
“Ružan čin možeš da ne ponoviš i možeš da se pokaješ zbog njega, ali ružne misli rađaju isključivo ružne čini. Ružan čin… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in… — Leo Tolstoy Gardening Copy Share Image
“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search… — Leo Tolstoy Intellect Copy Share Image
“a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had… — Leo Tolstoy Education Copy Share Image
“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an… — Leo Tolstoy History Copy Share Image
“The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Artist Copy Share Image
One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others' mind. I can think of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“My field was God’s earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“And since no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract questions, they never agreed in any opinion,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken… — Leo Tolstoy Relationship Copy Share Image
War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign… — Leo Tolstoy Peace Copy Share Image
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not… — Leo Tolstoy Cold Copy Share Image
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