“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
God
“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.”
PatriotismAll Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Patience“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Art“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“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
Life“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
Death“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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Amazing“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Change“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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Change“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”
Death“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“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Family“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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”
Music“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
War“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Truth“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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Government