The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Philosophical Copy Share Image
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Abstinence Copy Share Image
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Mathematician Copy Share Image
Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Fire Copy Share Image
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Generosity Copy Share Image
In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Power Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Animal life Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Art Copy Share Image
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Beautiful woman Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Capital punishment Copy Share Image
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer.… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Beloved Copy Share Image
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day.… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy God Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Kingdom of god Copy Share Image
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love,… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Happiness Copy Share Image
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Belief Copy Share Image
In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Body Copy Share Image
