Leo Tolstoy Quotes - BrainyQuote

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

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 Arrogance Better Better Person

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

Work God Moment You Look

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience War Time Powerful

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

Nature Happiness Man Broken

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 Service People

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

Change World Everyone Himself Thinks

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Life Humanity Meaning Meaning Of Life

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

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Death Shadow Two Valley Make

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

Truth Simplicity Great Greatness

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

Art Feeling Artist Handicraft

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness Be Happy You Happy Want

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 Man Me I Am

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

Family Happy Unhappy Way

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Men God Words Done

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music Emotion Shorthand

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

Life I Am Impossible Without

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

Man Humanity Instrument Universal

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Law Lie Limits Way

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Men Time Live Reason

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

People Go Questions Deaf

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Love Understand Everything Only

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Desire Boredom Desires

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Stupid Abnormal Nietzsche

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

Men Government Rest Violence

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Style Opinion Never Whatever

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