“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
FamilyAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Truth“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“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“If you want to be happy, be.”
Happiness“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.”
Faith“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.”
War“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.”
Food“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.”
God“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Love“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Happiness“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“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Death