Category Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Says: “it’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God,…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”