Quote

I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.

Leo Tolstoy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
Diarist
Esperantist
Essayist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Playwright
Prosaist
Writer
Tolstoi
Tolstoy
Lev Nikolaevich
graf Tolstoĭ
Lev Nikolayevich
Count Tolstoy
Count Lev Tolstoy
Leo
graf Tolstoy
Lev
Count Tolstoy
Lev
graf Tolsztoj
Лев Николаевич
c граф Толстой
Lew
graf Tolstoi
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Lev Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy
Life
Knew
Free
Force
Falsity
Understand
Discovered
Found
Master
Past
Masters
Nothing
Gave
Giving
Gives

More quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Image
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
Leo Tolstoy
Image
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Wealth brings a heavy purse poverty, a light spirit.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
Leo Tolstoy
Image
Energy rests upon love and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
A holy spirit lives within you.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
With friends, one is well but at home, one is better.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.
Leo Tolstoy
Image
And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself he went on living.
Leo Tolstoy