In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy 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 not the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
If a man earnestly seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share
