Category Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Says: “The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God’s laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man’s injustice to his fellow man.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I,…

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “It’s too easy to criticize a man when he’s out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else’s mistakes.”