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Leo Tolstoy
Russian
Novelist
About the author
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#War
#Ugly
#Voice
#Conscience
#Wage
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Growth
#Truth
#Gold
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Death
#Shadow
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#World
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Man
#Sense
#Faith
#Virtue
#Force
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Law
#Actions
#Lie
#Limits
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#State
#Power
#Wrong
#Suffering
#Patriotism
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Government
#Men
#Rest
#Violence
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#State
#Growth
#Present
#Desire
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Conscience
#Resolution
#Impossibility
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Living
#Nature
#Body
#Machine
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
#First
#Nature
#Happiness
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Music
#Emotion
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#God
#Words
#Men
#Difference
#Deeds
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Desire
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Humanity
#Unconscious
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Food
#Man
#Killing
#Appetite
#Animals
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Family
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Want
#People
#Death
#Violence
#Suffering
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Love
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Right
#War
#Responsibility
#Man
#Christian
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Art
#Feeling
#Artist
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Humanity
#Meaning
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Time
#Patience
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Truth
#Simplicity
#Greatness
#Goodness
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Beauty
#Illusion
#Goodness
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Man
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Love
#People
#Reason
#Care
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#God
#United
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Beauty
#Goodness
#Delusion
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#God
#Work
#Name
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#People
#Successful
#War
#History
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Want
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#People
#Work
#Art
#Saying
#Food
#Men
#Majority
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Love
#Men
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#People
#Questions
#Historians
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Style
#Opinion
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy,
Russian
Novelist
#Time
#Reason
#State
#Men