Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Change, Everyone, Himself

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy

Love, Everything, Understand

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
Leo Tolstoy

Food, Life, Live

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

Sorry, Him, Wish

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, Happy

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy

Family, Happy, Another

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

Time, Patience, Powerful

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music, Emotion, Shorthand

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy

Men, Government, Violence

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.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Live, Try

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy

Beauty, Amazing, Goodness

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy

Work, God, Moment

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Boredom, Desire, Desires

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Why, Impossible

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

Art, Feeling, Artist

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Faith, Live

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

Happiness, Nature, Broken

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Life, Humanity, Meaning

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy

Change, Life, True

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

Men, Love, Minds

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Away, Growth

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.
Leo Tolstoy

History, War, Alone

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Leo Tolstoy

Questions, Asked, Deaf

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy

Art, Work, Good

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Truth, Greatness, Simplicity

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Born: September 9, 1828

Died: November 20, 1910

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