Leo Tolstoy Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Leo Tolstoy quotes, Leo Tolstoy sayings, and Leo Tolstoy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. Leo Tolstoy
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy
I had passed from nihilism to the Church simply because I felt it to be impossible to live without religion, that is, without a knowledge of good and evil beyond the animal instincts. Leo Tolstoy
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete is as impossible as pure and complete joy. Leo Tolstoy
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. Leo Tolstoy
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy
how the fresh leaves at the tips of her branches have no idea of the vast structure of life, of boughs and trunks and roots that hold them in being and bring them to their awakening, but how they awaken anyway, without needing to know why and how; and how hood it is to be, and to grow, and to trust. Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. Leo Tolstoy
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. Leo Tolstoy
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. Leo Tolstoy
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy
Kindness is incompatible with steak. Leo Tolstoy
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 essential for right thinking. Leo Tolstoy
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Leo Tolstoy
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders? Leo Tolstoy
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. Leo Tolstoy
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. Leo Tolstoy
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. Leo Tolstoy