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
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
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
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 Faith Copy Share Image
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Philosophy 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
Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Fire 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
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
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 Kinds of love 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
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
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 Law and lawyers Copy Share Image
The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Belief 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
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
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
Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Mathematics 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
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 Blind man Copy Share Image
