Leo Tolstoy quotes

  1. Home
  2. Leo Tolstoy quotes
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy
Time
Patience
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Humanity
Meaning
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
Art
Artist
Feeling
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Leo Tolstoy
War
Christian
Man
Responsibility
Right
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
Love
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy
Death
People
Suffering
Violence
Want
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Family
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
Life
Food
Animals
Appetite
Killing
Man
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Humanity
Unconscious
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
Desire
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Leo Tolstoy
Men
God
Deeds
Difference
Words
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music
Emotion
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
Nature
First
Man
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy
Life
Nature
Body
Living
Machine
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
Conscience
Impossibility
Resolution