Quotes By Leo Tolstoy

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.