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 on life
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy on life
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 on life
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo Tolstoy on love
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy on love
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. Leo Tolstoy on men
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy on men
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 on men
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 on men
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 on men
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Leo Tolstoy on music
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy on nature
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 on nature
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy on patience
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 on patriotism
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 on power
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy on time
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 on time
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy on truth
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy on truth