50 Quotes By Leo Tolstoy


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