More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
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.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.
Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
