Leo Tolstoy Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”

“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.”

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.”

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”