Category Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Says: “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “There can be only one permanent revolution – a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful…