Leo TolstoyIf you look for perfection, you'll never be content. ✨ Leo Tolstoy, The Secret Libraries (2016). Leo Tolstoy Quotes... Vol. 5: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by … ▶372Life
Leo TolstoyTo tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). War and peace: a novel, New York361HumanityReadingTruth
Leo TolstoyEvery work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subse… ▶361HumanityLife
Leo TolstoyStepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of h… ▶372PoliticsReading
Leo TolstoyWhatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voi… ▶373DeathReadingTruth
Leo TolstoyA good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there we… ▶362Humor
Leo TolstoyThe best stories don't come from good vs. bad but good vs. good.351Philosophy
Leo TolstoyArt is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. ✨ Leo Tolstoy … ▶373HumanityLifeReading
Leo TolstoyAnna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one… ▶351Thought
Leo TolstoyThe most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves. ✨ Leo Tolstoy, T. C. B. Cook (2004). The De… ▶362DeathHumanity
Leo TolstoyBut it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery … ▶351HumanityLove
Leo TolstoyIn infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2009). … ▶362ReadingTime
Leo TolstoyNietzsche was stupid and abnormal.362Reading
Leo TolstoyTrue science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these trut… ▶362HumanityReadingReflection
Leo TolstoyAs we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then r… ▶341DeathLifeTime
Leo TolstoyEnough or not...it will have to do ✨ graf Leo Tolstoy (1914). Anna Karénina: In Eight Parts341Humor
Leo TolstoyDoctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? ✨ Leo Tol… ▶363Love
Leo TolstoyI felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2009). Family Happiness: Stories… ▶352ThoughtTime
Leo TolstoyThe feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the infl… ▶352Politics
Leo TolstoyYou've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing, he was saying; but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that yo… ▶352LifeLoveReading
Leo TolstoyIt is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympath… ▶352DeathLifeTruth
Leo TolstoyI have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in hi… ▶341LoveTruth
Leo TolstoyAct as if you are, and you will become such.363Hope
Leo TolstoyEverything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2016). War and Peace, p.1123, Leo Tolstoy341Time
Leo TolstoyWell, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but i… ▶374Politics
Leo TolstoyGovernments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2016). The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories,… ▶375DeathPoliticsReading
Leo TolstoyArt begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.364HumanityLife
Leo TolstoyMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. ✨ Leo Tolstoy (2012). Anna Karenina, p.527, Modern Library364Time
Leo TolstoyMorning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet … ▶375DeathLifeReading
Leo TolstoyIf religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person mainta… ▶364Life
