Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYIf everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.
LEO TOLSTOYLet the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOYWe can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is in your ability to love others.
LEO TOLSTOYThe Kingdom of God is Within You.
LEO TOLSTOYHuman science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
LEO TOLSTOYHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYIt’s hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOYIf we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
LEO TOLSTOYIt is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.
LEO TOLSTOYHappiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOYHe was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.
LEO TOLSTOY