Words matter. These are the best Leo Tolstoy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
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.
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.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
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.
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.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
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.
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.
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.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
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 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.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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.
