Quotes By Leo Tolstoy BACK
- Spring is the time of
- It is amazing how complete
- We can know only that
- Respect was invented to cover
- All happy families are alike;
- I think... if it is
- Only people who are capable
- He stepped down, trying not
- Everyone thinks of changing the
- If you look for perfection,
- If, then, I were asked
- Pierre looked into the sky,
- Man lives consciously for himself,
- Just as a painter needs
- And the angel said "I
- Too much polishing and you
- Then he thought himself unhappy,
- Where is there any book
- You consider war to be
- Money is a new form
- I feel that I am
- The true office of any
- Seas of blood have been
- It is very difficult to
- All violence consists in some
- Happiness consists in always aspiring
- Only the truth and its
- They say: sufferings are misfortunes,"
- It is no sin to
- One of the most obtuse
- Energy is based on love.
- My piece of bread only
- If religion is the establishing
- The vocation of every man
- God knows, but He's
- Dont you know that you
- Children: a torment and nothing
- He felt that all his
- Every one who has a
- No matter when, at whatever
- Anna smiled,as people smile
- The religious superstition is encouraged
- The most important knowledge is
- Reason unites us, not only
- In education, once more, the
- The idea shared by many
- If he be really and
- There's a way out
- Her maternal instinct told her
- She was in that highly
- One of the first conditions
- Giving alms is only a
- Every revolution by force only
- It's like scarlet fever:
- Each person's task in
- In spite the mountains of
- Teach French and unteach sincerity.
- As we live through thousands
- If it were not so
- The antagonism between life and
- Prayer is an invisible tool
- These loaves, pigeons, and two
- What is reason given me
- The kinder and more intelligent
- What is important is not
- Art is the uniting of
- Everything comes in time to
- Never did Christ utter a
- You see, if you take
- The appreciation of the merits
- A Christian cannot help being
- With friends, one is well;
- Once we're thrown off
- the very fact of the
- Ivan Ilych's life had
- The Christian churches and Christianity
- When ignorance does not know
- Good fiction doesn't come
- We live in this world
- People involve themselves in countless
- Happiness is in your ability
- Everybody wants to change the
- I feel not only that
- Progress consists only in the
- If there existed no external
- Christianity in its true sense
- Life did not stop, and
- And Levin, a happy father
- Seize the moment of happiness...
- Honest work is much better
- I ask one thing only:
- It's not so much
- Our whole life is taken
- The Jew is the symbol
- The question of how things
- When it is impossible to
- But our idea is that
- Faith is the force of
- It is not beauty that
- How important the concept of
- Art is a microscope which
- Physical violence is the basis
- If everyone fought for their
- God is the same everywhere.
- Yes, there is something in
- I felt a wish never
- Either you are so underdeveloped
- To say that a work
- A man on a thousand
- Dear Lord, what a madhouse
- The subject of history is
- There can be no peace
- Vegetarianism serves as the criterion
- From the self confidence with
- All, everything that I understand,
- The key to success in
- A good player who loses
- Man cannot possess anything as
- Often a man goes on
- All happy families resemble one
- He stepped down, avoiding any
- Every reform by violence is
- Without knowing what I am
- In all human sorrow nothing
- The sole meaning of life
- A man's every action
- At that instant he knew
- And you know, there's
- The law condemns and punishes
- Until you do what you
- Love is the only way
- If the thought ever comes
- The strongest of all warriors
- Are we not all flung
- How can one be well...
- There is no greatness where
- Men need only trust in
- The Kingdom of God is
- In historic events, the so
- For us, with the rule
- We call beauty that which
- Men are so accustomed to
- If people lacked the capacity
- The soul is immortal well
- We spend our lives trying
- How often we sin, how
- I always loved you, and
- I'm getting old, that'
- To tell the truth is
- The changes in our life
- But that had been grief
- She did not want to
- The more we live by
- All the girls in the
- Woman is generally so bad
- He never chooses an opinion;
- God gave the day, God
- When you understand that you
- This is where the strength
- Music is the shorthand of
- If I know the way
- Why does an apple fall
- So he lived, not knowing
- What is bad? What is
- War is not courtesy but
- I began to realize that
- You will die and it
- Well, my theory is this:
- The time is fast approaching
- The wrongfulness, the immorality of
- And those who only know
- If so many men, so
- He was afraid of defiling
- the majority of men do
- What I think about vivisection
- she smiled at him, and
- Art is a means of
- A monkey was carrying two
- There was no solution, save
- I asked: 'What is the
- The role of the disappointed
- You can't imagine what
- And not only the pride
- There will be today, there
- We love people not so
- But the law of loving
- Woman, you see, is an
- My life had come to
- Happiness does not depend on
- for nightinggales we know cant
- Governments not only are not
- And that which yesterday was
- Well, so it isn't
- I can't understand how
- A man can live and
- Patriotism is the principle that
- But that's just the
- Not one word, not one
- Knowledge is real knowledge only
- Life is fragile and absurd.
- I believe in one, incomprehensible
- He had the unlucky capacity
- At school he had done
- In order to correctly define
- Talent is the capacity to
- I'd rather end up
- He who has a mistaken
- Mathematics is the queen of
- The magnanimity and sensibility of
- I am obliged to renounce
- She put both her hands
- The Brahmins say that in
- Here I am alive, and
- Man discovers truth by reason
- There can be only one
- Whatever question arose, a swarm
- When you say, 'I cant
- But every acquisition that is
- Christianity, with its doctrine of
- To say that you can
- God is that infinite All
- Since corrupt people unite amongst
- A leader is the wave
- The epitaph that I would
- but that what was for
- Pretence about anything sometimes deceives
- It is terrible when people
- Here's my advice to
- It is by those who
- Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the
- I am sure that nothing
- He sought his former accustomed
- Effort is not a means
- Konstantin Levin did not like
- In a writer there must
- Hypocrisy in anything whatever may
- Government is an association of
- Grow spiritually and help others
- The activity of art is...
- Do not be sad about
- Which is worse? the wolf
- The most mentally deranged people
- The teaching of the church,
- But the peasants how do
- The best stories don't
- When you love someone, you
- At moments of departure and
- I imagine, joking apart, that
- Love is God, and to
- You can love a person
- Like all mad men, I
- The goal of our life
- I am always with myself,
- Work is the inevitable condition
- I love her not with
- The more he did nothing
- The life of our class,
- He looked at her as
- But I'm glad you'
- He felt that he was
- These joys were so trifling
- Seize the moments of happiness,
- And so the liberal tendency
- By digging into our souls,
- I must have physical exercise,
- There are many faiths, but
- Art should cause violence to
- I simply want to live;
- Himmlisch ist's wenn ich
- Men pray to the Almighty
- We walked to meet each
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest
- A quiet secluded life in
- By patriotism is meant, not
- The happiness of men consists
- School is established, not in
- Before we can study the
- Humanity unceasingly strives forward from
- Everything depends on upbringing.
- In Varenka, she realized that
- It is a rude feeling,
- Each man lives for himself,
- The only happy marriages I
- What am I coming for?"
- The march of humanity, springing
- To evoke in oneself a
- There are two methods of
- What a strange illusion it
- In life, in true life,
- Freethinkers are those who are
- Why nowadays there's a
- Three things are needed to
- Everything I know, I know
- As soon as men live
- We're asleep until we
- Ah, if everyone was as
- The political is not compatible
- To destroy governmental violence, only
- Genuine religion is not about
- Man by violating his own
- After the doctor's departure
- In our day the feeling
- All men's instincts, all
- Love is life. All, everything
- The idea of beauty is
- Human love serves to love
- The recognition of the sanctity
- If we admit that human
- True life is lived when
- I'm like a starving
- The possibility of killing one'
- If there was a reason
- Historians are like deaf people
- To us, it is incomprehensible
- War is not a polite
- India, which is the nursery
- War is so unjust and
- The compassionate are not rich;
- Love alone is the only
- We shall all of us
- Muhammad has always been standing
- I prefer a good pair
- The most important time is
- If a man's aspirations
- She had no need to
- You say: I am not
- When the suffering of another
- To know God and to
- To love life is to
- Our body is a machine
- A writer is dear and
- Nothing prevents our denying life
- There is one thing, and
- There are people who, on
- Religions are the exponents of
- But if Christianity really gives
- And once he had seen
- Tell people that war is
- Several times I asked myself, "
- The question was a fashionable
- The law of violence is
- The higher a man's
- Every lie is a poison;
- The earth is the general
- Where there is a man
- I think that when you
- To regard Christ as God,
- I dont count life as
- Music makes me forget myself,
- Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen
- We lost because we told
- True art and true science
- It seldom happens that a
- There is nothing more harmful
- Why should I live? Why
- Power is the relation of
- Music is love in search
- Am I mad, to see
- To sin is a human
- I cant think of you
- What time can be more
- Regard the society of women
- The example of a syllogism
- Love. The reason I dislike
- It boils down to this:
- He felt now that he
- As often happens between men
- Go take the mother's
- For man to be able
- If I had any doubts
- If you no longer believe
- Read less, study less, but
- We imagine that when we
- Suddenly I heard the words
- To get rid of an
- All the variety, all the
- No one has yet added
- The only absolute knowledge attainable
- Upon meeting, you're judged
- Remember that there is only
- The most important person is
- The greater the state, the
- Truth, like gold, is to
- People try to do all
- Life could be limitless joy,
- Don't seek God in
- The only significance of life
- In order to know what
- The Lord had given them
- One can no more approach
- And yet, now that years
- He was right in saying
- There is only one time
- The military world is characterized
- That only shows you have
- In vain do science and
- One must do one of
- Death is more certain than
- He felt all the torment
- I have learned what must
- It's all God's
- In difficult circumstances always act
- Man has received direct from
- History would be a wonderful
- Kings are the slaves of
- The meaning of life consists
- With one hand I take
- If you love me as
- People continued regardless of all
- There are as many loves
- The more is given the
- I sit on a man'
- I ask one thing: I
- Human science fragments everything in
- Patriotism is "a very definite
- But men are now united
- Boredom is desire seeking desire.
- A man can spend several
- No one is satisfied with
- Energy rests upon love; and
- the same question arose in
- I must write each day
- The difference between real material
- And whatever people might say
- Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome
- They've got no idea
- Patience is waiting. Not passively
- Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
- When one's head is
- It is horrible! It is
- Well, pray if you like,
- All were happy plants, birds,
- Very often, all the activity
- Boredom: the desire for desires.
- He knew she was there
- Under the influence of music,
- Better to know a few
- Slavery results from laws, laws
- Though it is possible to
- it is hard for anyone
- If we would only testify
- He felt like a man
- Each time of life has
- And so he who looks
- Wealth brings a heavy purse;
- Between the murder of an
- The error arises from the
- What counts in making a
- Love does not exist. There
- Only greatly insolent people establish
- God cannot be understood by
- Enough or not...it will
- Just imagine that the purpose
- And the light by which
- People understand the meaning of
- When joy disappears, look for
- Pierre was right when he
- Life is everything. Life is
- Violence produces only something resembling
- There are two Gods, there
- Art is a human activity
- We must not only cease
- There are such repulsive faces
- When a man sees a
- Can it be that I
- The business of art lies
- The feeling of patriotism It
- All great literature is one
- Wrong does not cease to
- We acknowledge God only when
- Both salvation and punishment for
- It would, therefore, seem obvious
- It is the work and
- When we do not love,
- We are all created to
- Here I am...wanting to
- One must be cunning and
- Power is a word the
- I have now understood that
- I was now prepared to
- Science is meaningless because it
- The government in which I
- Many people have ideas on
- And for him, who lived
- Something magical has happened to
- I have found that a
- Everyone wants to change the
- The essence of any religion
- It is a harmful feeling,
- Loving with human love, one
- A free thinker used to
- Happy people have no history.
- It is easier to produce
- Let us forgive each other
- If people tell you that
- Memento mori remember death! These
- A new conception of life
- Art is not a handicraft,
- If you asked someone, 'Can
- There is trouble with a
- If every man could act
- I know that most men,
- People look like rivers very
- If once we admit, be
- I often think that men
- In order to obtain and
- It is possible to live
- The hero of my tale,
- It seems as though mankind
- In order to understand, observe,
- Even if the absence of
- I have discovered nothing. I
- Art can compel people freely,
- The improvement of life was
- My principal sin is doubt.
- The essence of all slavery
- How interesting it would be
- Levin scowled. The humiliation of
- Rest, nature, books, music...such
- The most important of all
- In the evolution of knowledge
- Darkness had fallen upon everything
- thou shalt not kill does
- Christian love comes from the
- Error is the force that
- Man's mind cannot grasp
- People are always happy where
- The simplest and shortest ethical
- The chief cause of unhappiness
- In infinite time, in infinite
- Anna spoke not only naturally
- Smiling with pleasure, they went
- It seems that it is
- There are always so many
- And all these people lived
- One is ashamed to say
- Art is not a pleasure,
- If you see that some
- History would be an excellent
- I say that the God
- Religion reveals the meaning of
- History, that is to say,
- If Mormonism is able to
- What an immense mass of
- Every man and every living
- There is no significant idea
- Not all of life's
- Religious people are guided in
- The true meaning of Christ'
- If a man, before he
- Rummaging in our souls, we
- Government is violence, Christianity is
- Nowhere nor in anything, except
- Nothing is so necessary for
- I wanted movement and not
- He who has love, is
- Great works of art are
- A human can be healthy
- It's not given to
- Women are the pivot round
- He liked to fish; he
- All the true heroes of
- I do value my work
- The ideas of the wise
- For a few seconds they
- Whatever our fate is or
- A holy spirit lives within
- Then we should find some
- The two most powerful warriors
- So remember great achievements take
- The artist's mission must
- Faith is the sense of
- Meanwhile spring arrived. My old
- There is no genius where
- Her face was brilliant and
- History is the product of
- Man is meant for happiness
- Is it really possible to
- Eating meat is a leftover
- The vegetarian movement ought to
- Every unhappy family is unhappy
- Man must not check his
- All governments are in equal
- Though the doctors treated him,
- To abolish war it is
- Even in the valley of
- And where love ends, hate
- By words one transmits thoughts
- Every man had his personal
- Anything is better than lies
- I did not myself know
- Every work of art causes
- There is one evident, indubitable
- Many families remain for years
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest,
- the most difficult thing but
- Flesh eating is simply immoral,
- One can live magnificently in
- I wanted to run after
- As soon as man applies
- Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness
- When Levin thought what he
- Loving the same man or
- One ought only to write
- Love those you hate you.
- If you do not know
- Today, nobody sees, or wishes
- In the spiritual realm nothing
- You're not going to
- Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
- Every time I tried to
- Man recognizes that he will
- Why does man have reason
- but my life now, my
- All the stories and descriptions
- Those whom God wishes to
- What is the cause of
- If goodness has causes, it
- Commit no act that is
- The chief attraction of military
- An agile but unintelligent and
- Death destroys the body, as
- If a man does not
- For if we allow that
- We should show life neither
- I now understand that my
- The great tragedy of atheists
- If you're not enjoying
- It is this law of
- The struggle with evil by
- Why am I going?" he
- Division of labor is a
- In our age the common
- The kinder and the more
- He remembered his mother's
- Perhaps it's because I
- Always the same. Now a
- A person who has spoiled
- Everything ends in death, everything.
- I believe that order is
- The chief difference between words
- I believe that the reason
- In spite of death, he
- Instead of going to Paris
- People jump back and forth
- The whole world is divided
- Do not resist the evil
- Happiness consists of living each
- This history of culture will
- The more mental effort he
- I have discovered nothing new;
- The only purpose of education
- If you make it a
- A battle is won by
- Understand then all of you,
- In all history there is
- Beautiful as seemed mama's
- I have to create a
- Act as if you are,
- Writing laws is easy, but
- All that day she had
- I often think how unfairly
- When you feel the desire
- A man has to think
- a real work of art
- One must put oneself in
- An arrogant person considers himself
- excuse me' he added, taking
- Just as one candle lights
- A wife's a worry,
- Through the influence of real
- Much unhappiness has come from
- The whole trouble lies in
- Debates conceal rather than reveal
- The most difficult subjects can
- The truth is obtained like
- Without the support from religion
- Childhood candor... shall I ever
- The higher a man stands
- The highest wisdom has but
- They ought to find out
- There lay between them, separating
- Lay me down like a
- From the child of five
- Life consists in penetrating the
- It's too easy to
- I'll tell you truly:
- The truth is that the
- It may be suggested by
- Rivers are places that renew
- And the cause of everything
- The sobs and tears of
- Art begins when a man,
- The best method for a
- Some mathematician, I believe, has
- What doubt can you have
- Joy can only be real
- In former times the chief
- People of limited intelligence are
- Whenever my life came to
- Everything intelligent is so boring.
- True science investigates and brings
- He soon felt that the
- Vengeance is mine; I will
- Some mathematician said that pleasure
- At the approach of danger
- Happiness is pleasure without regret
- When I have one foot
- A man is like a
- The best thoughts most often
- Morning or night, Friday or
- We have become so accustomed
- When politics and home life
- Nowadays, as before, the public
- Doctoring her seemed to her
- Perhaps it is even more
- Can it be that there
- But Christ could certainly not
- Friends we shall never be,
- I don't think badly
- Only those live who do
- In order to carry through
- Woman is more impressionable than
- Power is the sum total
- To speak of it would
- Sometimes she did not know
- Real wisdom is not the
- God forgive me everything!' she
- You've said nothing, of
- Art lifts man from his
- In marriage the great thing
- discipline consists in this that
- Be bad, but at least
- He is not apprehended by
- Perfection is impossible without humility.
- In the best, the friendliest
- Power, from the standpoint of
- Drama, instead of telling us
- There it is!' he thought
- I don't allow myself
- Without Greek studies there is
- It is within my power
- One can often hear from
- So long as people do
- Wealth is a great sin
- In the name of God,
- There are no conditions to
- I looked more widely around
- Pure and complete sorrow is
- Every heart has its own
- He could not be mistaken.
- Is it possible to say
- He had heard that women
- Just when the question of
- Pierre was one of those
- The one who is happy,
- Prayer is addressed to the
- It will pass, it will
- What is now happening to
- One may say with one'
- it's much better to
- Condemn me if you choose