Leo Tolstoy: Trending quotes (page 10)

“To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.”

“All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.”

“You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.”

“In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer…”

“Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”

“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”

“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”

“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.”

“Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.”

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”

“she smiled at him, and at her own fears.”

“I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now."
Vronsky”

“Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?”

“Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.”

“In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.”

“Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.”

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”

“Teach French and unteach sincerity.”