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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Those who neither struggle against violence nor take part in it can no more be enslaved than water can be cut.
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.
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
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.
Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
