3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy 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.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
