Quotes Tagged With :tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as....

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner....

...Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us?...

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such....

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We....

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”,....

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.