When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation.
Leo TolstoyPatience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo TolstoySince corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
Leo TolstoyReligion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
Leo TolstoyAnd so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
Leo Tolstoy[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.
Leo Tolstoy