Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

Christianity with its doctrine of humility of forgiveness of love is incompatible with the state with its haughtiness its violence its punishment its wars.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.

Faith is the force of life.

To love ones neighbors to love ones enemies to love everything - to love God in all His manifestations - human love serves to love those dear to us but to love ones enemies we need divine love.

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

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life and avoid it as much as possible.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life the true source of human welfare.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

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.