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More Quotes by Lev Tolstoy
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.
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.
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.
All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the “bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.
By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live.
