Quotes by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

#Mathematics, #Pleasure, #Truth

I have discovered nothing new, I have only perceived what I already knew.

#Wisdom

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in...

#Love

It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of...

#God, #Race, #Truth

In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but...

#Love, #Power, #Pride

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of...

#Love

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not...

#Faith

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which...

#Books

And all people live, not by reason of any care they have for themselves, but...

#Love

Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister

#Knowledge

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman...

#Beauty, #Goodness

In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the...

#Power