Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

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.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.