Leo Tolstoy Quotes And Sayings

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. Tolstoy’s fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas. He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. Tolstoy also became a dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly Resurrection.

If You Want To Be Happy, Be.

Music Is The Shorthand Of Emotion.

War Is So Unjust And Ugly That All Who Wage It Must Try To Stifle The Voice Of Conscience Within Themselves.

Art Is Not A Handicraft, It Is The Transmission Of Feeling The Artist Has Experienced.

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.

There Is No Greatness Where There Is No Simplicity, Goodness And Truth.

All Happy Families Resemble One Another, Each Unhappy Family Is Unhappy In Its Own Way.

Man Lives Consciously For Himself, But Is An Unconscious Instrument In The Attainment Of The Historic, Universal, Aims Of Humanity.

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.

All Violence Consists In Some People Forcing Others, Under Threat Of Suffering Or Death, To Do What They Do Not Want To Do.

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.

In The Name Of God, Stop A Moment, Cease Your Work, Look Around You.

The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience And Time.

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.

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 Sole Meaning Of Life Is To Serve Humanity.

Historians Are Like Deaf People Who Go On Answering Questions That No One Has Asked Them.

One Of The First Conditions Of Happiness Is That The Link Between Man And Nature Shall Not Be Broken.

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.

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.

Without Knowing What I Am And Why I Am Here, Life Is Impossible.

Everyone Thinks Of Changing The World, But No One Thinks Of Changing Himself.

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.

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.

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.

Government Is An Association Of Men Who Do Violence To The Rest Of Us.

Boredom: The Desire For Desires.

We Lost Because We Told Ourselves We Lost.

True Life Is Lived When Tiny Changes Occur.

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.

If So Many Men, So Many Minds, Certainly So Many Hearts, So Many Kinds Of Love.

He Never Chooses An Opinion; He Just Wears Whatever Happens To Be In Style.

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.

Even In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death, Two And Two Do Not Make Six.

Truth, Like Gold, Is To Be Obtained Not By Its Growth, But By Washing Away From It All That Is Not Gold.

All, Everything That I Understand, I Understand Only Because I Love.

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.

It Is Amazing How Complete Is The Delusion That Beauty Is Goodness.

We Must Not Only Cease Our Present Desire For The Growth Of The State, But We Must Desire Its Decrease, Its Weakening.

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.