Category Quotations

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

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.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.”

Leo Tolstoy Says: “Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.”