Leo Tolstoy

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #life

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#sin

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#reductionism #science #science

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#heartbreak #relationships #love

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#confidence

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#education #schools #education

Everything depends on upbringing. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#upbringing #parenting

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#kindlehighlight

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#art #art

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#freedom #freedom