Leo Tolstoy Quotes - BrainyQuote

Russian - Novelist September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Nature Happiness Man Broken

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience War Time Powerful Two

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Life Better Arrogance Perfect

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Change World Everyone Himself

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art Feeling Artist Handicraft

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Truth Simplicity Great Greatness

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Truth Growth Gold Like

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Life I Am Impossible Without Why

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Beauty Amazing Goodness How

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Life Happiness People Look

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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Men Rest Government Violence

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Life Humanity Meaning Meaning Of Life

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Patriotism Power Suffering Wrong

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

War Ugly Voice Try

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music Emotion Shorthand

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.

Life Food Man Animal

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.

Life Change Live New

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Life Faith Man Live

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

Myself Me I Am Man

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness Be Happy You Happy Want

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

People Go Questions Like

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Work Moment God You

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Family Happy Unhappy Way Own

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Boredom Desire Desires

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Stupid Abnormal Nietzsche

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Lost Because Ourselves

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