Leo Tolstoy

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly – one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Not all of life’s roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Leo Tolstoy

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Leo Tolstoy

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

Leo Tolstoy

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

Leo Tolstoy

One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.

Leo Tolstoy

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

Leo Tolstoy

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen.

Leo Tolstoy

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Leo Tolstoy

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Leo Tolstoy