Nature of man Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

— Leo Tolstoy

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

— Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone wants to change humanity, but no one is willing to change themselves.”

— Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

— Leo Tolstoy

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

— Leo Tolstoy

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

— Leo Tolstoy

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

— Leo Tolstoy

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

— Leo Tolstoy

“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search…

— Leo Tolstoy

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself”

— Leo Tolstoy

Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what…

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have…

— Leo Tolstoy

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men…

— Leo Tolstoy

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only…

— Leo Tolstoy

History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings…

— Leo Tolstoy

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly…

— Leo Tolstoy

There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,…

— Leo Tolstoy

In the evolution of knowledge-mistaken and unnecessary beliefs are forced out and supplanted by truer and more necessary knowledge. So too in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Imagine a flock of pigeons in a corn field. Imagine that ninety-nine of them, instead of pecking the corn they need and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are two sides to the life of every man, his individual life, which is the more free the more abstract its…

— Leo Tolstoy

“At the time we were all convinced that we had to speak, write,and publish as quickly as possible and as much as…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There are two aspects to the life of every man: the personal life, which is free in proportion as its interests are…

— Leo Tolstoy

“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said…

— Leo Tolstoy

The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others…

— Leo Tolstoy

I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or…

— Leo Tolstoy