“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art
“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.”
NatureAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.”
Happiness“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.”
Art“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Patience“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“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.”
Nature“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“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“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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
Love“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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“If you want to be happy, be.”
Happiness“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.”
Alone“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music