It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If… — Leo Tolstoy Armageddon Copy Share Image
“There was not a single cross or worried-looking face. All seemed to have left their cares and anxieties in the porter’s room… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming… — Leo Tolstoy Arrogance Copy Share Image
“To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not feel like it, she became enthusiastic… — Leo Tolstoy Career Copy Share Image
“Why do i live? In the infinity of space, and infinity of time infinitely small particles mutate with infinite complexity. When you… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for… — Leo Tolstoy Beauty Copy Share Image
“To bring under the sway of Christianity savage nations who do not attack us and whom we have therefore no excuse for… — Leo Tolstoy Christian teaching Copy Share Image
It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person… — Leo Tolstoy Care Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden?… — Leo Tolstoy Hope Copy Share Image
“He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual world. She knew, too, that… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“It is said that one swallow does not make a summer, but can it be that because one swallow does not make… — Leo Tolstoy Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
“In former days," said Golenishtchev, not observing, or not willing to observe, that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, "in former… — Leo Tolstoy Born free Copy Share Image
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and… — Leo Tolstoy Heart Copy Share Image
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in… — Leo Tolstoy Animal Copy Share Image
“Besides, Oblonsky was fond of a pleasant joke, and sometimes liked to perplex a simple-minded man by observing that if you're going… — Leo Tolstoy Ancestor Copy Share Image
“Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it… — Leo Tolstoy Military service Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Every general and every soldier was conscious of his own insignificance, aware of being but a drop in that ocean of men,… — Leo Tolstoy Insignificance Copy Share Image
What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars?… — Leo Tolstoy Astronomy Copy Share Image
“The more respect that different objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you have to question the right these things… — Leo Tolstoy Culture Copy Share Image
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn… — Leo Tolstoy Absurdities Copy Share Image
“He did not know that Levin was feeling as though he had grown wings. Levin knew she was listening to his words… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's… — Leo Tolstoy Books Copy Share Image
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free,… — Leo Tolstoy Human condition Copy Share Image
“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic… — Leo Tolstoy Individualistic Copy Share Image
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge… — Leo Tolstoy Creepy Copy Share Image
“As roupas dela, a compleição dela, a expressão do rosto, o som da voz − tudo lhe dizia a ele a mesma… — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the baroness's dress. But it… — Leo Tolstoy Coffee Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly… — Leo Tolstoy Artificial life Copy Share Image
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
“Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people,… — Leo Tolstoy Bad people Copy Share Image
