I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Leo Tolstoy Calm Copy Share Image
“Why is gambling forbidden while women in costumes which evoke sensuality are not forbidden? They are a thousand times more dangerous!” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. — Leo Tolstoy Human soul Copy Share Image
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without… — Leo Tolstoy Alive Copy Share Image
The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is… — Leo Tolstoy Care Copy Share Image
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it… — Leo Tolstoy Illusion Copy Share Image
The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but… — Leo Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
“Those who don’t believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their… — Leo Tolstoy Faith Copy Share Image
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life which is the more free the more abstract it's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Depth Copy Share Image
“You're not racing?" joked the officer. "Mine is a harder race," Alexei Alexandrovich replied respectfully. And though the reply did not mean… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there were exactly the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life… — Leo Tolstoy Awareness Copy Share Image
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I was only a year and some odd months younger than Woloda, and from the first we had grown up and studied… — Leo Tolstoy Brother Copy Share Image
The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special… — Leo Tolstoy Absence Copy Share Image
“He meditated on the use to which he should put all the energy of youth which comes to a man only once… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“You are all misleading one another, and are yourselves deceived. The sun does not go round the earth, but the earth goes… — Leo Tolstoy Nature Copy Share Image
“There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer… — Leo Tolstoy Daily life Copy Share Image
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. — Leo Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe. — Leo Tolstoy Feds Copy Share Image
