“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.” — Leo Tolstoy Fictional character Copy Share Image
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none. — Leo Tolstoy Giving Copy Share Image
Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. — Leo Tolstoy Judgment Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself. — Leo Tolstoy Change Copy Share Image
“My writing is like those little carved baskets made in prisons…” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy Beautiful Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He is so used to living a purely spiritual life that he cannot reconcile himself to realities, and, after all, Varenka is… — Leo Tolstoy Life Copy Share Image
“La razón no ha descubierto que se amase al prójimo, porque eso no es razonable. Constantino Levin” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good… — Leo Tolstoy Conflict Copy Share Image
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I,… — Leo Tolstoy Blessings Copy Share Image
“But it did not interest her at all. She and Levin had a conversation of there own, yet not a conversation but… — Leo Tolstoy Communication Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful… — Leo Tolstoy Advice Copy Share Image
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Christianity Copy Share Image
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“wonder at the short-sightedness of men who seek enjoyment and happiness here on earth: toiling, suffering, struggling, and harming one another, to… — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.… — Leo Tolstoy Desire Copy Share Image
“With 6 children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get sick, a third lacked something, a fourth… — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
“No one spoke of hatred of the Russians. the feeling experienced by all the Chechens, from the youngest to the oldest, was… — Leo Tolstoy Hatred Copy Share Image
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am… — Leo Tolstoy Accountability Copy Share Image
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all… — Leo Tolstoy Action Copy Share Image
“In a clock the complex action of countless different wheels works its way out in the even, leisurely movement of hands measuring… — Leo Tolstoy Fear Copy Share Image
“Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself, there lay only suffering, death, and eternal… — Leo Tolstoy Death Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Battlefields Copy Share Image
“It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“La energía se basa en el amor y no es posible adquirir amor a la fuerza.” — Leo Tolstoy Amor Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven” — Leo Tolstoy Anna-karenina Copy Share Image
