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.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

Leo Tolstoy

The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

Leo Tolstoy

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

Leo Tolstoy

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

Leo Tolstoy

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Leo Tolstoy