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Leo Tolstoy Quotes, part 2

1. “In the love between a man and a woman there always comes a moment when this love has

reached its zenith—a moment when it is unconscious, unreasoning, and with nothing sensual about it.” ― Leo Tolstoy

2. “The aim of civilization is to enable us to get enjoyment out of everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 3. “on which side is truth,—on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on

the side of the lives of others and myself?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

4. “knew that the result of a battle is decided not by the orders of a commander in chief, nor the

place where the troops are stationed, nor by the number of cannon or of slaughtered men, but by that intangible force called the spirit of the army, and he watched this force and guided it in as far as that was in his power.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

5. “This is tantamount to saying, "My hand is weak. I cannot draw a straight line,—that is, a line

which will be the shortest line between two given points,—and so, in order to make it more easy for myself, I, intending to draw a straight, will choose for my model a crooked line." The weaker my hand, the greater the need that my model should be perfect.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Kreutzer Sonata and Family Happiness

6. “He understood that feeling of Levin's so well, knew that for Levin all the girls in the world were

divided into two classes: one class included alll the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human failings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class - herself alone - had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

7. “She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from

the pain she had caused.” ― Leo Tolstoy 8. “Alexey Alexandorivich had seen nothing striking or improper in the fact that his wife was

sitting with Vronsky at a separate table, in eager conversation with him about something. But he noticed that to the rest of the party this appeared to be something striking and improper. He made up his mind that he must speak of it to his wife.” ― Leo Tolstoy

9. “the irrepressible, quivering brilliance of her eyes and her smile set him on fire” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 10. “Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that

is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

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11. “Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

12. “Yes, would have been,' he said sadly. 'He's precisely one of those people of whom they say

that they're not meant for this world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 13. “God is my desire” ― Leo Tolstoy 14. “I think...,' said Anna, playing with the glove she had taken off, 'I think... if there are as many

minds as there are men, there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

15. “No, you're not going to get away from us, and you're not going to be different, you're going to

be the same as you've always been; with doubts, ever lasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to improve, and failures, and continual expectations of happiness that has eluded you and that isn't possible for you.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

16. “All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain

tribes to their ancient belief, etc.--questions which, but for the convenient intervention of the official machine are not, and cannot be solved for ages--received full, unhesitating solution.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

17. “Book is a nice companion” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 18. “He was nine years old; he was a child; he he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he

guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

19. “The greatest human achievement is love.” ― Leo Tolstoy

20. “He considered it his duty to keep up with everything of note that appeared in the intellectual

world. She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Aleksey Aleksandrovich never missed anything in the world of art, but

made it his duty to read everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

21. “With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely

alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and ridicule, but as soon as I yielded to low

passions I was praised and encouraged.” ― Leo Tolstoy

22. “He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he

had been before.” ― Leo Tolstoy

23. “Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over

a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich

had lived.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

24. “The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite

forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive

or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

25. “The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows

God, the nearer will he draw to Him, imitating His goodness, His mercy, and his love of man. Therefore, let him who sees the sun's whole light filling the world, refrain from blaming or despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ray of that same light. Let him

not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all.” ― Leo Tolstoy

26. “It was very, very early in the morning. You were probably only just awake. Your mother was

asleep in the corner. It was an exquisite morning. I was walking along wondering who it could be in a four-in-hand? It was a splendid set of four horses with bells, and in a second you flashed by, and I saw you at the window—you were sitting like this, holding the strings of your cap in both hands, and thinking awfully deeply about something," he said, smiling. "How I

should like to know what you were thinking about then! Something important?” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina

27. “What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and

the most deserving people from all the civilized countries of the world, for thousands of years, can make the results of their studies and their wisdom available to us. The thought which they might not even reveal to their best friends is written here in clear words for us, people from another century. Yes, we should be grateful for the best books, for the best spiritual

achievements in our lives. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of

Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

28. “But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that

she's already… it seems as if ill-luck would have it so! Oh, oh! But what, what is to be done?”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

29. “Yes, yes, how was it now?" he thought, going over his dream. "Now, how was it? To be sure!

Alabin was giving a dinner at Darmstadt; no, not Darmstadt, but something American. Yes, but then, Darmstadt was in America. Yes, Alabin was giving a dinner on glass tables, and the tables sang, Il mio tesoro—not Il mio tesoro though, but something better, and there were

some sort of little decanters on the table, and they were women, too," he remembered.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

30. “The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

31. “And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his

newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

32. “When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial

desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to

him [/her] who suffers, and try to help him[/her].” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily

Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

33. “The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of

Christianity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings

34. “Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it,

he now avoided talking or thinking about it. Thinking about it led him into doubts and prevented him from seeing what he should and should not do. But when he did not think, but just lived, he unceasingly felt in his soul the presence of an infallible judge deciding which of two actions was the better and which the worse; and as soon as he did what he should not have done he immediately felt this. In this way he lived, not knowing or seeing any possibility

of knowing what he was or why he lived in the world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

35. “Oh how lovely it is!’ she kept saying. Look what a moon! Oh, how lovely!…I feel like squatting

down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, tight – as tight as can be – and flying away!” Prince Andrei, a serious man who thought he had given up on the pleasures of life, hears her from below, and “all at once such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts

and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, surged up in his heart.” ― Leo Tolstoy

36. “Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

37. “With six children Darya Alexandrovna could not be calm. One got sick, another might get

sick, a third lacked something, a fourth showed signs of bad character, and so on, and so on. Rarely, rarely would there be short periods of calm. But these troubles and anxieties were for Darya Alexandrovna the only possible happiness. Had it not been for them, she would have remained alone with her thoughts of her husband, who did not love her. But besides that, however painful the mother's fear of illnesses, the illnesses themselves, and the distress at seeing signs of bad inclinations in her children, the children repaid her griefs with small joys. These joys were so small that they could not be seen, like gold in the sand, and in her bad moments she saw only griefs, only sand; but there were also good moments, when she saw only joys, only gold.

38. Now, in her country solitude, she was more aware of these joys. Often, looking at them, she

made every possible effort to convince herself that she was mistaken, that as a mother she was partial to her children; all the same, she could not but tell herself that she had lovely children, all six of them, each in a different way, but such as rarely happens -- and she was

happy in them and proud of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy

39. “He entered his wife’s drawing-room as one enters a theatre, was acquainted with everybody,

equally pleased to see everyone and equally indifferent to them all.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and

Peace

40. “Go to the devil, I'm busy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

41. “Was it not youth, the feeling he experienced now, when, coming out to the edge of the wood

again from the other side, he saw in the bright light of the sun’s slanting rays Varenka’s graceful figure, in a yellow dress and with her basket, walking with a light step past the trunk of

an old birch, and when this impression from the sight of Varenka merged with the sight, which struck him with its beauty, of a yellowing field of oats bathed in the slanting light, and of an old wood far beyond the field, spotted with yellow, melting into the blue distance? He felt his heart wrung with joy. A feeling of tenderness came over him. He felt resolved. Varenka, who had just crouched down to pick a mushroom, stood up with a supple movement and looked over

her shoulder.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

42. “Everything within him and around him seemed confused, senseless, and loathsome. But in

this very loathing for everything around him, Pierre took a sort of irritating pleasure.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace

43. “Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna;

that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about

which it was better not to speak.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

44. “To be an enthusiast had become her social vocation and, sometimes even when she did not

feel like it, she became enthusiastic in order not to disappoint the expectations of those who

knew her.” ― Leo Tolstoy, WAR & PEACE

45. “Even philanthropy did not have the desired effect. The genuine as well as the false paper

money which flooded Moscow lost its value. The French, collecting booty, cared only for gold. Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the

unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

46. “Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are

essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace

47. “People who are given to deliberating on their actions generally find themselves in a serious

frame of mind when it comes to embarking on a journey or changing their mode of life. At such

moments one reviews the past and forms plans for the future.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War And Peace

48. “I was afraid of life and strove against it, yet I still hoped for something from it.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

49. “So those are the direct answers human wisdom gives when it answers the question of life.

"The life of the body is evil and a lie. And therefore the destruction of this life of the body is something good, and we must desire it," says Socrates. "Life is that which ought not be - an evil - and the going into nothingness is the sole good of life," says Schopenhauer. "Everything in the world - folly and wisdom and riches and poverty and happiness and grief - all is vanity and nonsense. Man will die and nothing will remain. And that is foolish," says Solomon. "One must not live with awareness of the inevitability of suffering, weakness, old age, and death - one must free oneself from life, from all possibility of life," says Buddha. And what these powerful intellects said was said and thought and felt by millions and millions of people like

them. And I too thought and felt that.” ― Leo Tolstoy

50. “It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And as I've told you before, I tell you again; it's not right for you not to go to the meetings, and altogether to keep out of the district business. If decent people won't go into it, of course it's bound to go all wrong. We pay the money, and it all goes in salaries, and there are no schools, not district nurses, nor midwives, nor drug-stores ---nothing [...] How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert...dies without help? The ignorant peasant-women starve the children, and the people stagnate in darkness, and are helpless in the hands of every village clerk, while you have at your disposal a means of helping them, and don't help them because to your mind it's of no importance." And Sergey Ivanovitch put before him the alternative: either you are so undeveloped that you can't see all that you can do , or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever IT is, to do it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

51. “I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry

discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly; there will be still the same wall between the holy of holies of my soul and other people, even my wife; I shall still go on scolding her for my own terror, and being remorseful for it; I shall still be as unable to understand with my reason why I pray, and I shall still go on praying; but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

52. “I have hundreds of roubles that I don't know what to do with, and she stands there in a

tattered coat and looks at me timidly," thought Pierre. "And what does she need money for? As id this money can add one hair's breadth to her happiness, her peace of mind? Can anything in the world make her or me less subject to evil and death? Death, which will end everything and which must come today or tomorrow - in a moment, anyhow, compared with eternity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

53. “Always wetweating-always wetweating!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 54. “All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Letter

to a Hindu 55. “No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I

tried to deceive myself to spare her," he said to himself. And it actually seemed to him that he always had seen it: he recalled incidents of their past life, in which he had never seen anything wrong before—now these incidents proved clearly that she had always been a corrupt woman. "I made a mistake in linking my life to hers; but there was nothing wrong in my mistake, and so I cannot be unhappy. It's not I that am to blame," he told himself, "but she. But I have nothing to do with her. She does not exist for me… ” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

56. “The hero of my tale,” Tolstoy wrote when he was just twenty-seven, “whom I love with all the

power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and always will be beautiful— is Truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

57. “…and in the same way the innumerable people who took part in the war acted in accord with

their personal characteristics, habits, circumstances and aims. They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

58. “But that’s the aim of civilization: to make everything an enjoyment.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

59. “Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is

merely a slow and regular movement of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French—all their passions, desires, remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and enthusiasm—was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the so-called battle of the three Emperors—that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

60. “But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that

he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

61. “But just as the force of gravitation-in itself incomprehensible, though felt by every man- is only

so far understood by us as we know the laws of necessity to which it is subject, so too the force of free will, unthinkable in itself, but recognized by the consciousness of every man, is only so far understood as we know the laws of necessity to which it is subject.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

62. “What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every

individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.” ― Leo Tolstoy

63. “I love you all, and have done no harm to anyone; and what have you done to me?’—said her

charming, pathetic, dead face.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 64. “For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of

the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession 65. “He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 66. “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and

not as one would like them to be….” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 67. “there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men

as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

68. “That’s my one desire, to be caught," answered Vronsky, with his serene, good-humored

smile. "If I complain of anything it’s only that I’m not caught enough, to tell the truth. I begin to lose hope.” ― Leo Tolstoy

69. “Freedom! What is freedom for? Happiness is only in loving and wishing her wishes, thinking

her thoughts, that is to say, not freedom at all — that’s happiness!” “But do I know her ideas, her wishes, her feelings?” some voice suddenly whispered to him. The smile died away from his face, and he grew thoughtful. And suddenly a strange feeling came upon him. There came over him a dread and doubt — doubt of everything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

70. “To sin is a human business, but to justify sins is a devilish business.” ― Leo Tolstoy 71. “How can one feel well when one is suffering in moral sense? Can any sensitive person find

peace of mind nowadays?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 72. “I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 73. “The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of

which he does not see the results.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 74. “Satan can never be driven out by Satan. Error can never be corrected by error, and evil

cannot be vanquished by evil.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You 75. “Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 76. “During this journey it was as if he again thought over his whole life and reached the same old

comforting and hopeless conclusion: that there was no need for him to start anything, that he had to live out his life without doing evil, without anxiety, and without wishing for anything.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

77. “Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.” ― Leo Tolstoy 78. “Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in

conjunction with all kinds of art.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 79. “Lying on his back, he gazed up now into the high, cloudless sky. “Do I not know that that is

infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

80. “The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy 81. “Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 82. “The old with the old, the young with the young, the hostess by the tea table, on which there

were exactly the same cakes in a silver basket as the Panins had at their soiree - everything was exactly the same as with everyone else.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

83. “The dreadful superstition that it is possible to foresee the future shape of society serves to

justify all kinds of violence in the name of that structure. It is enough for a person to free his thoughts, even temporarily, of this superstition and to look sincerely and seriously at the life of the nation for it to become clear to him that acceptance of the need to oppose evil with violence is nothing other than the justification people give to their habitual and favourite vices: vengeance, avarice, envy, ambition, pride, cowardice and spite.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

84. “All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities

into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as before.

85. Some do the first, others the second. To attain the first there is but one means: moral enlightenment — the increase of light in oneself and attention to what it shows. To attain the second — to hide from oneself the indications of conscience—there are two means: one external and the other internal. The external means consists in occupations that divert one’s attention from the indications given by conscience; the internal method consists in darkening conscience itself.

86. As a man has two ways of avoiding seeing an object that is before him: either by diverting his

sight to other more striking objects, or by obstructing the sight of his own eyes—just so a man can hide from himself the indications of conscience in two ways: either by the external method of diverting his attention to various occupations, cares, amusements, or games; or by the internal method of obstructing the organ of attention itself. For people of dull, limited moral feeling, the external diversions are often quite sufficient to enable them not to perceive the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their lives. But for morally sensitive people those means are often insufficient.

87. The external means do not quite divert attention from the consciousness of discord between

one’s life and the demands of conscience. This consciousness hampers one’s life; and in order to be able to go on living as before, people have recourse to the reliable, internal method, which is that of darkening conscience itself by poisoning the brain with stupefying substances.

88. One is not living as conscience demands, yet lacks the strength to reshape one’s life in accord

with its demands. The diversions which might distract attention from the consciousness of this discord are insufficient, or have become stale, and so—in order to be able to live on, disregarding the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their life—people (by poisoning it temporarily) stop the activity of the organ through which conscience manifests itself, as a man by covering his eyes hides from himself what he does not wish to see.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?: And Other Writings

89. “The struggle for existence and hatred are the only things that unite people.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 90. “And just as the conclusions of the astronomers would have been vain and uncertain if not

founded on observations of the seen heavens, in relation to a single meridian and a single horizon, so would my conclusions be vain and uncertain if not founded on that conception of right, which has been and will be always alike for all men, which has been revealed to me as a Christian, and which can always be trusted in my soul. The question of other religions and their relations to Divinity I have no right to decide, and no possiblity of deciding.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

91. “So that is what my dream meant! Pashenka is what I ought to have been but failed to be. I

lived for men on the pretext of living for God, while she lived for God imagining that she lives 92. for men. Yes, one good deed--a cup of water given without thought of reward--is worth more

than any benefit I imagined I was bestowing on people. But after all was there not some share 93. of sincere desire to serve God?' he asked himself, and the answer was: 'Yes, there was, but it

was all soiled and overgrown by desire for human praise. Yes, there is no God for the man who

94. lives, as I did, for human praise. I will now seek Him!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Father Sergius 95. “Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the

meaning of one’s life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 96. “If once we begin judging and arguing about everything, nothing sacred will be left!” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace

97. “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” ― Leo Tolstoy 98. “There are people who, on meeting a successful ribal, no matter in what, are at once disposed

to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. there are people, on the ohter hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.” ― Leo Tolstoy

99. “Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by

any force. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

100. “Love, true love, love that denies itself and transfers itself to another, is the awakening within

oneself of the highest universal principle of life. But it is only true love and affords all the happiness it can give when it is simply love, free from anything personal, from the smallest drop of personal bias towards its object. And such love can only be felt for one’s enemy, for those who hate and offend. Thus, the injunction to love not those who love us, but those who hate us, is not an exaggeration, nor an indication of possible exclusions, but simply a directive for that opportunity and possibility of receiving the supreme bliss that love can give.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

101. “one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in

it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

102. “The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty's eyes said:

"Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be? But for goodness' sake don't suppose," her eyes added, "that I would force my acquaintance on you, I simply admire you and like you."

103. "I like you too, and you're very, very sweet. And I should like you better still, if I had time,"

answered the eyes of the unknown girl.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 104. “But does it make any difference now?" he thought. "And what will be there, and what has

been done here? Why was I so sorry to part with life? There was something in this life I didn't and still don't understand...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

105. “What does it mean that thirty thousand men, not athletes but rather weak and ordinary

people, have subdued two hundred million vigorous, clever, capable, and freedom-loving people? Do not the figures make it clear that it is not the English who have enslaved the Indians, but the Indians who have enslaved themselves?” ― Leo Tolstoy

106. “Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?” “Because it exists.” ― Leo Tolstoy 107. “He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 108. “The question how to live had hardly begun to grow a little clearer to him, when a new,

insoluble question presented itself—death.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 109. “History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the

life of kings as an instrument for its own ends” ― Leo Tolstoy 110. “The enemy stopped shooting, and that strict, menacing, inaccessible, and elusive line that

separates two enemy armies became all the more clearly felt. “One step beyond that line,

reminiscent of the line separating the living from the dead, and it’s the unknown, suffering, and death. And what is there? who is there? there, beyond this field, and the tree, and the roof lit by the sun? No one knows, and you would like to know; and you’re afraid to cross that line, and would like to cross it; and you know that sooner or later you will have to cross it and find out what is there on the other side of the line, as you will inevitably find out what is there on the other side of death. And you’re strong, healthy, cheerful, and excited, and surrounded by people just as strong and excitedly animated.” So, if he does not think it, every man feels who finds himself within sight of an enemy, and this feeling gives a particular brilliance and joyful sharpness of impression to everything that happens in those moments.” ― Leo Tolstoy

111. “My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time.

This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-"Where are we to steer?"-by saying, "We are being carried somewhere.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

112. “No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal

principle, a philosophical principle” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 113. “They were moved by fear or vanity, rejoiced or were indignant, reasoned, imagining that they

knew what they were doing and did it of their own free will, but they all were involuntary tools of history, carrying on a work concealed from them but comprehensible to us. Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

114. “and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as

accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more!” ― Leo Tolstoy 115. “Each believed that the life he himself led was the only real life and the life led by his friend

was nothing but an illusion.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 116. “But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in

it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.” ― Leo Tolstoy

117. “All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - "Caius is a man,

men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal" - had seemed to him to be true only in relation to Caius the man, man in general, and it was quite justified , but he wasn't Caius and he wasn't man in general, and he had always been something quite, quite special apart from all other beings; he was Vanya, with Mama, with Papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with his toys and the coachman, with Nyanya, then with Katenka, with all the joys, sorrows, passions of childhood, boyhood, youth. Did Caius know the smell of the striped leather ball Vanya loved so much?: Did Caius kiss his mother's hand like that and did the silken folds of Caius's mother's dress rustle like that for him? Was Caius in love like that? Could Caius chair a session like that? And Caius is indeed mortal and it's right that he should die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it's quite different. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too horrible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych

118. “Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot

express what one feels?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 119. “Then she thought of how life could still be happy, and how tormentingly she loved and hated

him, and how terribly her heart was pounding.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

120. “Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 121. “If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated” ―

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 122. “Speak to her now? But that's just why I'm afraid to speak—because I'm happy now, happy in

hope, anyway… . And then?… . But I must! I must! I must! Away with weakness!” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

123. “I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is

impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it. -Vronsky” ― Leo Tolstoy 124. “When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling

of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

125. “When in doubt, my dear fellow, do nothing.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 126. “No, pardon me, I consider myself and people like me aristocrats: people who can point back

to three or four honourable generations of their family, all with a high standard of education (talent and intelligence are a different matter), who have never cringed before anyone, never depended on anyone, but have lived as my father and my grandfather did. I know many such. You consider it mean for me to count the trees in my wood while you give Ryabinin thirty thousand roubles; but you will receive a Goernment grant and I don't know what other award, and I shan't, so I value what is mine by birth and labour... We - and not those who only manage to exist by the bounty of the mighty of this world, and who can be bought for a piece of silver - are the aristocrats. -Levin” ― Leo Tolstoy

127. “The history of mankind is crowded with evidences proving that physical coercion is not

adapted to moral regeneration, and that the sinful dispositions of men can be subdued only by love; that evil can be exterminated only by good; that it is not safe to rely upon the strength of an arm to preserve us from harm; that there is great security in being gentle, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy; that it is only the meek who shall inherit the earth; for those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

128. “But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye!

Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Devil

129. “Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance

of his actions which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human, for him ever to be able to grasp their meaning. He could not disavow his actions, belauded as they were by half the world, and so he had to repudiate truth, goodness, and all humanity.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

130. “He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor

of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—

according to the fashion—but for that very reason seem the most vehement partisans” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

131. “Anna took a knife and fork in her beautiful, white, ring-adorned hands and began to

demonstrate. She obviously could see that her explanation could not make anything understood, but, knowing that her speech was pleasant and her hands were beautiful, she went on explaining.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

132. “Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began

wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over his shoulder in a medieval fashion, which was very becoming to him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

133. “there are only two sources of human vice—idleness and superstition, and only two virtues—

activity and intelligence.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 134. “The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.” ― Leo Tolstoy 135. “He was always in a hurry to get where he was not.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 136. “The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs

reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

137. “mentioning 'our days' as people of limited intelligence are fond of doing, imagining that they

have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of 'our days' and that human characteristics change with the times...” ― Leo Tolstoy

138. “If there is something great in you, it will not appear on your first call. It will not appear and

come to you easily, without any work and effort. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

139. “Such is the inevitable fate of men of action, and the higher they stand in the social hierarchy

the less are they free.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

140. “All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 141. “And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more

peace.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 142. “[T]he social relationship of young women to young men … now seemed to Kitty like

ignominious exposure of merchandise to be taken by the highest bidder.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

143. “He looked at people as if they were things. A nervous young man across from him...came to

hate him for that look. The young man lit a cigarette from his, tried talking to him, and even jostled him, to let him feel that he was not a thing but a human being, but Vronsky went on looking at him as at a lampost, and the young man grimaced, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the pressure of this non-recognition of himself as a human being...” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

144. “It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

145. “We will never arrive to the notion of total freedom, that is, the absence of cause” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace 146. “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields” ― Leo Tolstoy, What I Believe 147. “Prince Andrew shrugged his shoulders and frowned, as lovers of music do when they hear a

false note.” ― Leo Tolstoy 148. “But all profit that is out of proportion to the labor expended is dishonest.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 149. “Paulucci and Michaud both attacked Wolzogen simultaneously in French. Armfeldt addressed

Pfuel in German. Toll explained to Volkonski in Russian. Prince Andrew listened and observed in silence.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

150. “The prince enjoyed unusually good health even among princes; both by gymnastic exercises

and by taking good care of his body he had brought himself to such a state of physical fitness that in spite of the excesses he indulged in when enjoying himself, he looked as fresh as a big shiny green Dutch cucumber.” ― Leo Tolstoy

151. “Whatever answers faith gives, regardless of which faith, or to whom the answers are given,

such answers always give an infinite meaning to the finite existence of man; a meaning that is not destroyed by suffering, deprivation or death. This means that only in faith can we find the meaning and possibility of life. I realized that the essential meaning of faith lies not only in the ‘manifestations of things unseen’, and so on, or in revelation (this is only a description of one of the signs of faith); nor is it simply the relationship between man and God (it is necessary to define faith, then God, and not God through faith); nor is it an agreement with what one has been told, although this is what faith is commonly understood to be. Faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life, the consequence of which is that man does not kill himself but lives. Faith is the force of life. If a man lives, then he must believe in something. If he did not believe that there was something he must live for he would not live. If he does not see and comprehend the illusion of the finite he will believe in the finite. If he does understand the illusion of the finite, he is bound to believe in the infinite. Without faith it is impossible to live.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

152. “I only know this, that she thanks God for all her tribulations, and, above all, because her

husband is dead.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 153. “i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and

the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. i felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life. i suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.” ― Leo Tolstoy

154. “Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.” ― Leo Tolstoy, On

the Significance of Science and Art 155. “He suffered from an unlucky faculty—common to many men, especially Russians—the faculty

of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too

clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

156. “In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait” ― Leo Tolstoy 157. “Never, never marry, my friend. Here’s my advice to you: don’t marry until you can tell yourself

that you’ve done all you could, and until you’ve stopped loving the woman you’ve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you’ll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you’re old and good for nothing … Otherwise all that’s good and lofty in you will be lost. It will all go on trifles. Yes, yes, yes! Don’t look at me with such astonishment. If you expect something from yourself in the future, then at every step you’ll feel that it’s all over for you, it’s all closed, except the drawing room, where you’ll stand on the same level as a court flunkey and an idiot … ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

158. “But in the depths of his heart, the older he became, and the more intimately he knew his

brother, the more and more frequently the thought struck him that this faculty of working for the public good, of which he felt himself utterly devoid, was possibly not so much a quality as a lack of something —not a lack of good, honest, noble desires and tastes, but a lack of vital force, of what is called heart, of that impulse which drives a man to choose someone out of the innumerable paths of life, and to care only for that one.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

159. “During that summer Nekhludoff experienced that exaltation which youth comes to know not

by the teaching of others, but when it naturally begins to recognize the beauty and importance of life, and man's serious place in it; when it sees the possibility of infinite perfection of which the world is capable, and devotes itself to that endeavor, not only with the hope, but with a full conviction of reaching that perfection which it imagines possible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Awakening The Resurrection

160. “The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an

extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.” ― Leo Tolstoy

161. “Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving

someone else besides him, and it was this that seemed so senseless and incomprehensible to him, because it was life itself. All his lief Alexei Alexandrovich had lived and worked in spheres of services that dealt with reflections of life. And each time he had encountered life itself, he had drawn back from it. Now he experienced a feeling similar to what a man would feel who was calmly walking across a bridge over an abyss and suddenly saw that the bridge had been taken down and below him was the bottomless deep. This bottomless deep was life itself, the bridge the artificial life that Alexei Alexandrovich had lived.” ― Leo Tolstoy

162. “If no one fought except on his own conviction, there would be no wars,” he said.” ― Leo

Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

163. “Peaceful with six children Darya Alexandrova could not be...Rare indeed were the brief

periods of peace...hard though it was for the mother to bear the dread of illness, the illnesses themselves, and the grief of seeing signs of evil propensities in her children--the children themselves were even now repaying her in small joys for her sufferings. Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see

nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.

164. Now in the solitude of the country, she began to be more and more frequently aware of those

joys. Often, looking at them, she would make every possible effort to persuade herself that she was mistaken, that she as a mother was partial to her children. All the same, she could not help saying to herself that she had charming children, all six of them in different ways, but a set of children such as is not often to be met with, and she was happy in them, and proud of them.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

165. “You can't understand it; for you men, who are free and make your own choice, it's always

clear whom you love. But a girl's in a position of suspense, with all a woman's or maiden's modesty, a girl who sees you men from afar, who takes everything on trust,— a girl may have, and often has, such a feeling that she cannot tell what to say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

166. “Anna Mikhaylovna was already embracing her and weeping. The countess wept too. They

wept because they were friends, and because they were kindhearted, and because they - friends from childhood - had to think about such a base thing as money, and because their youth was over.... But those tears were pleasant to them both.” ― Leo Tolstoy

167. “And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly

held those views on all these subjects which were held by the majority and by his paper, and he only changed them when the majority changed them—or, more strictly speaking, he did not change them, but they imperceptibly changed of themselves within him.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

168. “With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 169. “Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and

Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the court world by asking to be sent to the front, instead of begging for a post in attendance on the Tsar's person.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

170. “This is the divine law of life: that only virtue stands firm. All the rest is nothing. —

PYTHAGORAS” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

171. “My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said

to myself, "the nowledge of faith arises from a mysterious origin. This origin is God, the source of the human mind and body. Just as God has bestowed my body upon me a bit at a time, so has he imparted to me my reason and understand-ing of life; thus the stages in the development of this understanding cannot be false. Everything that people truly believe must be true; it may be expressed in differing ways, but it cannot be a lie. Therefore, if I take it to be a lie, this merely indicates that I have failed to understand it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

172. “When he was dressed, Stepan Arkadyevitch sprinkled some scent on himself, pulled down

his shirt-cuffs, distributed into his pockets his cigarettes, pocketbook, matches, and watch with its double chain and seals, and shaking out his handkerchief, feeling himself clean, fragrant, healthy, and physically at ease, in spite of his unhappiness, he walked with a slight swing on each leg into the dining-room, where coffee was already waiting for him, and beside the coffee, letters and papers from the office.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

173. “Levin tried to drink a little coffee, and put a piece of roll into his mouth, but his mouth could do

nothing with it. He took the piece out of his mouth, put on his overcoat and went out to walk about again.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

174. “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed

any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” ― Leo Tolstoy

175. “It was indeed terrible. And to rid myself of the terror I wished to kill myself. I experienced

terror at what awaited me -- knew that that terror was even worse than the position I was in, but still I could not patiently await the end. However convincing the argument might be that in any case some vessel in my heart would give way, or something would burst and all would be over, I could not patiently await that end. The horror of darkness was too great, and I wished to free myself from it as quickly as possible by noose or bullet. that was the feeling which drew me most strongly towards suicide.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

176. “Every heart has its own skeletons, as the English say.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 177. “It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a

game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for.” ― Leo Tolstoy

178. “Only Anna was sad. She knew that now, from Dolly's departure, no one again would stir up

within her soul the feelings that had been roused by their conversation. It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

179. “We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that

what is new and good begins.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 180. “The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk

in his own concerns. A kind person lives in a world of beneficent events, whose goodness matches his own. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

181. “A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body

as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German’s self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth—science—which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

182. “Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising

your kindness and love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

183. “It showed him the mistake men make in picturing to themselves happiness as the realization

of their desires.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 184. “Stepan Arkadyevitch was on familiar terms with almost all his acquaintances, and called

almost all of them by their Christian names: old men of sixty, boys of twenty, actors, ministers, merchants, and adjutant-generals, so that many of his intimate chums were to be found at the

extreme ends of the social ladder, and would have been very much surprised to learn that they had, through the medium of Oblonsky, something in common. He was the familiar friend of everyone with whom he took a glass of champagne, and he took a glass of champagne with everyone, and when in consequence he met any of his disreputable chums, as he used in joke to call many of his friends, in the presence of his subordinates, he well knew how, with his characteristic tact, to diminish the disagreeable impression made on them. Levin was not a disreputable chum, but Oblonsky, with his ready tact, felt that Levin fancied he might not care to show his intimacy with him before his subordinates, and so he made haste to take him off into his room.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

185. “When you carry your burden, you should know that it is good for you to have it. Make the best

of this burden and take from it everything which is necessary for your intellectual life, as your stomach takes from food everything necessary for your flesh, or as fire burns brighter after you put some wood on it. —MARCUS AURELIUS” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

186. “Darya Alexandrovna, in a dressing jacket, and with her now scanty, once luxuriant and

beautiful hair fastened up with hairpins on the nape of her neck, with a sunken, thin face and large, startled eyes, which looked prominent from the thinness of her face, was standing among a litter of all sorts of things scattered all over the room, before an open bureau, from which she was taking something. Hearing her husband's steps, she stopped, looking towards the door, and trying assiduously to give her features a severe and contemptuous expression. She felt she was afraid of him, and afraid of the coming interview. She was just attempting to do what she had attempted to do ten times already in these last three days—to sort out the children's things and her own, so as to take them to her mother's—and again she could not bring herself to do this; but now again, as each time before, she kept saying to herself, "that things cannot go on like this, that she must take some step" to punish him, put him to shame, avenge on him some little part at least of the suffering he had caused her. She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him. Besides this, she realized that if even here in her own house she could hardly manage to look after her five children properly, they would be still worse off where she was going with them all. As it was, even in the course of these three days, the youngest was unwell from being given unwholesome soup, and the others had almost gone without their dinner the day before. She was conscious that it was impossible to go away; but, cheating herself, she went on all the same sorting out her things and pretending she was going.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

187. “Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all

the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.” ― Leo Tolstoy

188. “A 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 Tolstoy 189. “All great literature is one of two stories: either a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes

to town.” ― Leo Tolstoy 190. “...she still found no words in which she could express the complexity of her feelings; indeed,

she could not even find thoughts in which she could clearly think out all that was in her soul.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

191. “What right had I to imagine that she would wish to unite her life with mine? Who and What am

I? A man of no account, wanted by no one and of no use to anyone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

192. “Some mathematician has said that enjoyment lies in the search for truth, not in the finding it.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

193. “To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing,

supporting, or giving charity to other people.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily

Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

194. “A moment's pain can be a lifetime's gain.” ― Leo Tolstoy, How Much Land Does A Man

Need?

195. “Having then for the first time clearly understood that before every man, and before himself,

there lay only suffering, death, and eternal oblivion, he had concluded that to live under such conditions was impossible; that one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem

to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

196. “Once there is no freedom, there is no man” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

197. “The whole of that day Anna spent at home, that's to say at the Oblonskys', and received no

one, though some of her acquaintances had already heard of her arrival, and came to call; the same day. Anna spent the whole morning with Dolly and the children. She merely sent a brief note to her brother to tell him that he must not fail to dine at home. "Come, God is merciful,"

she wrote.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

198. “Since the moment when, at the sight of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time

looked at the questions of life and death in the light of the new convictions, as he called them, which between the ages of twenty and thirty-four had imperceptibly replaced the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he had been less horrified by death than by life without the least knowledge of whence it came, what it is for, why, and what it is, Organisms, their destruction, the indestructibility of matter, the law of the conservation of energy, development—the terms that had superseded these beliefs—were very useful for mental purposes; but they gave no guidance for life, and Levin suddenly felt like a person who has exchanged a thick fur coat for a muslin garment and who, being out in the frost for the first time, becomes clearly convinced, not by arguments, but with the whole of his being, that he is as good as naked and that he

must inevitably perish miserably.” ― Leo Tolstoy

199. “I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live

by and Other Tales 200. (He, like all people who live with nature and know want, was patient and could wait calmly for

hours, even days, without feeling either alarm or vexation)” ― Leo Tolstoy, Master and Man

201. “Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.” ― Leo Tolstoy

202. “I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

203. “Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but

were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina

204. “Everyone thinks of changing the world,but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy,

War and Peace 205. “I find it difficult now to recall and understand the dreams which then filled my imagination.

Even when I can recall them, I find it hard to believe that my dreams were just like that: they were so strange and so remote from life.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Great Short Works

206. “Send anyone who preaches war to a special frontline legion -into the assault, into the attack,

ahead of everyone.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 207. “I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be

necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgements must be based on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

208. “Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 209. “The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with

dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky seemed to come down lower over our heads.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Great Short Works

210. “You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Where

Love Is, There God Is Also 211. “If you once realize that to-morrow, if not to-day, you will die and nothing will be left of you,

everything becomes insignificant!” ― Leo Tolstoy 212. “Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who

knew the arguments concerning the vanity of life, the arguments that revealed to me its meaninglessness, lived nonetheless, bringing to life a meaning of their own. Since the time when people somehow began to live, this meaning of life has been with them, and they have led this life up to my own time. Everything that is in me and around me is the fruit of their knowledge of life. The very tools of thought by which I judge life and condemn it were created not by me but by them. I myself was born, educated and have grown up thanks to them. They dug out the iron, taught us how to cut the timber, tamed the cattle and the horses, showed us how to sow crops and live together; they brought order to our lives. They taught me how to think and to speak. I am their offspring, nursed by them, reared by them, taught by them; I think according to their thoughts, their words, and now I have proved to them that it is all meaningless! "Something is wrong here," I said to myself. "I must have made a mistake somewhere.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

213. “War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within

themselves.” ― Leo Tolstoy

214. “He thought himself a shining light, and the more he felt this the more he was conscious of a wakening, a dying down of the divine light of truth that shone within him.

215. 'In how far is what I do for God and in how far it is for men?' That was the question that

insistently tormented him and to which he was not so much unable to give himself an answer unable to face the answer.

216. In the depth of his soul he felt that the devil had substituted an activity for men in place of his

former activity for God.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Father Sergius 217. “But though towards the end of the battle the men felt all the horror of their actions, though

they would have been glad to cease, some unfathomable, mysterious force still led them on, and the artillerymen-the third of them left-soaked with sweat, grimed with powder and blood, and panting with weariness, still brought the charges, loaded, aimed, and lighted the match; and the cannon balls flew as swiftly and cruelly from each side and crushed human flesh, and kept up the fearful work, which was done not at the will of men, but at the will of Him who sways men and worlds.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

218. “The highest wisdom is founded not on reason only, not on those worldly sciences, of physics,

history, chemistry, etc., into which knowledge of the intellect is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom knows but one science-the science of the whole, the science that explains the whole creation and the place of man in it. To instil this science into one's soul, it is needful to purify and renew one's inner man, and so, before one can know, one must believe and be made perfect. And for the attainment of these aims there has been put into our souls the light of God, called conscience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

219. “Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all.

If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

220. “War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that and

not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game. As it is now, war is the favorite pastime of the idle and frivolous. The military calling is the most highly honored.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

221. “...she felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole

month had vanished irretrievably...And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl.” ― Leo Tolstoy

222. “I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love,” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 223. “Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing themselves.” ― Leo

Tolstoy 224. “had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves,” ― Leo Tolstoy,

Anna Karenina 225. “I wrote: teaching what was for me the only truth, namely, that one should live so as to have

the best for oneself and one's family.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

226. “intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

227. “Before any definite step can be taken in a household, there must be either complete division

or loving accord between husband and wife.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 228. “Then these moments of perplexity began to recur oftener and oftener, and always in the

same form. They were always expressed by the questions: What is it for? What does it lead to?” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

229. “...that religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people” ― Leo

Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 230. “The liberal party said, or rather allowed it to be understood, that religion is only a curb to keep

in check the barbarous classes of the people; and Stepan Arkadyevitch could not get through even a short service without his legs aching from standing up, and could never make out what was the object of all the terrible and high-flown language about another world when life might be so very amusing in this world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

231. “And the light by which she had been reading the book of life, blazed up suddenly, illuminating

those pages that had been dark, then flickered, grew dim. and went out forever.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

232. “If string isn't tight and you try to break it, it's very hard to do. But tighten it to the utmost and

put just the weight of your finger on it, and it will break.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 233. “It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it

showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

234. “It's really ludicrous; her object is doing good; she a Christian, yet she's always angry; and she

always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

235. “The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that

impedes progress.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 236. “But why do his ears stick out so oddly? Did he have his hair cut?” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna

Karenina 237. “Laws of motion of any kind only become comprehensible to man when he can examine

arbitrarily selected units of that motion. But at the same time it is this arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous units which give rise to a large proportion of human error.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

238. “Self esteem,' said Levin, cut to the quick by his brother's words, 'is something I do not

understand. If I had been told at the university that others understood integral calculus and I did not — there you have self esteem. But here one should first be convinced that one needs to have a certain ability in these matters and, chiefly, that they are all very important.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

239. “If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing

would come of it.” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

240. “But there was a second kind of people, the real ones, to which they all belonged, for whom

the main thing was to be elegant, beautiful, generous, bold, and gay, to give way unblushingly to every passion and to laugh at everything else.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

241. “In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not

possibly understand it. The example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal-- had seemed to him all his life to be correct only in relation to Caius, but by no means himself. For the man Caius, man in general, it was perfectly correct; but he was not Caius and not man in general, he had always been quite, quite separate from all other human beings...And Caius is indeed mortal, and it's right that he die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts-- for me it's another matter. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too terrible. So it felt to him.” ― Leo Tolstoy

242. “She did not now say those former terrible words to him, but looked simply, merrily, and

inquisitively at him. And Prince Andrew, crossing his arms behind him, long paced the room, now frowning, now smiling, as he reflected on those irrational, inexpressible thoughts, secret as a crime, which altered his whole life and were connected with Pierre, with fame, with the girl at the window, the oak, and woman’s beauty and love. And if anyone came into his room at such moments he was particularly cold, stern, and above all unpleasantly logical.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

243. “Brought up with an idea of God, a Christian, my whole life filled with the spiritual blessings

Christianity has given me, full of them, and living on those blessings, like the children I did not understand them, and destroy, that is try to destroy, what I live by. And as soon as an important moment of life comes, like the children when they are cold and hungry, I turn to Him, and even less than the children when their mother scolds them for their childish mischief, do I feel that my childish efforts at wanton madness are reckoned against me.

244. "Yes, what I know, I know not by reason, but it has been given to me, revealed to me, and I

know it with my heart, by faith in the chief thing taught by the church. 245. "The church! the church!" Levin repeated to himself. He turned over on the other side, and

leaning on his elbow, fell to gazing into the distance at a herd of cattle crossing over to the river.

246. "But can I believe in all the church teaches?" he thought, trying himself, and thinking of

everything that could destroy his present peace of mind. Itentionally he recalled all those doctrines of the church which had always seemed most strange and had always been a stumbling block to him.

247. "The Creation? But how did I explain existence? By existence? By nothing? The devil and sin.

But how do I explain evil?... The atonement?... 248. "But I know nothing, nothing, and I can know nothing but what has been told to me and all

men." 249. And it seemed to him that there was not a single article of faith of the church which could

destroy the chief thing--faith in God, in goodness, as the one goal of man's destiny. 250. Under every article of faith of the church could be put the faith in the service of truth instead of

one's desires. And each doctrine did not simply leave that faith unshaken, each doctrine seemed essential to complete that great miracle, continually manifest upon earth, that made it possible for each man and millions of different sorts of men, wise men and imbeciles, old men

and children--all men, peasants, Lvov, Kitty, beggars and kings to understand perfectly the same one thing, and to build up thereby that life of the soul which alone is worth living, and which alone is precious to us.

251. Lying on his back, he gazed up now into the high, cloudless sky. "Do I not know that that is

infinite space, and that it is not a round arch? But, however I screw up my eyes and strain my sight, I cannot see it not round and not bounded, and in spite of my knowing about infinite space, I am incontestably right when I see a solid blue dome, and more right than when I strain my eyes to see beyond it."

252. Levin ceased thinking, and only, as it were, listened to mysterious voices that seemed talking

joyfully and earnestly within him. 253. "Can this be faith?" he thought, afraid to believe in his happiness. "My God, I thank Thee!" he

said, gulping down his sobs, and with both hands brushing away the tears that filled his eyes.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

254. “I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guessed of what it consisted. The truth was that

life is meaningless. I” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings 255. “It is impossible to imagine to oneself a man who has no freedom otherwise as deprived of life”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 256. “At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the

human soul: one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger, since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in society to the second.” ― Leo Tolstoy, WAR & PEACE

257. “no difference is less easily overcome than the difference of opinion about semi-abstract

questions,” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 258. “be tempted by so easy a way of ending my life. I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared

life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it. And all this befell” ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

259. “I think ... if there are as many minds as there are men, then there are as many kinds of love

as there are hearts.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 260. “How sweet he is!” said Countess Marya, looking at the baby and playing with him. “This is

what I don’t understand, Nicolas,” s