Leo Tolstoy
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.Collection: Patriotism
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.Collection: Men
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.Collection: Time
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Faith
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Food
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.Collection: Happiness
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.Collection: Great
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.Collection: War
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.Collection: Life
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.Collection: Amazing
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.Collection: Relationship
If you want to be happy, be.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Art
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Nature
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Collection: God
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.Collection: Life
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.Collection: Death
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Collection: Art
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.Collection: Nature
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.Collection: Death
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Collection: Change
Music is the shorthand of emotion.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Alone
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.Collection: War
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.Collection: Love
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Collection: Family
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.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
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.
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
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.
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.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.Collection: Happiness
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.Collection: Majority
Patience 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.Collection: Inspiring
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.Collection: Love
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.Collection: Math
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.Collection: Real
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.Collection: People
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.Collection: People