Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYArt lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
LEO TOLSTOYI’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
LEO TOLSTOYGrow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
LEO TOLSTOYMan cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
LEO TOLSTOYOne must be cunning and wicked in this world.
LEO TOLSTOYTo get rid of an enemy one must love him.
LEO TOLSTOYMusic is the shorthand of emotion.
LEO TOLSTOYLove alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
LEO TOLSTOYIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOYWrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOYThe more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
LEO TOLSTOYRest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
LEO TOLSTOYLife did not stop, and one had to live.
LEO TOLSTOYEvery lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.
LEO TOLSTOYA man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
LEO TOLSTOYWhich is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY