Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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.
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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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.
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.
If you want to be happy, be.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
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.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
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