1,507 Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

It's hard to love a woman and do anything.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Love those you hate you.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.