Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

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

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