More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
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.
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.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
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.
