1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people’s memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

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.

But that’s just the aim of civilization – to make everything a source of enjoyment.

I’m getting old, that’s the thing! What’s in me now won’t be there anymore.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries – and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand.

And where love ends, hate begins.

Condemn me if you choose I do that myself, but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.

Men need only trust in Christ’s teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.