"We are shocked by thieves taking pride in their clever touch, prostitutes in their depravity and murderers in their callousness. But it is shocking on...
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
More Leo Tolstoy quotes
"God gave the day, God gave the strength.
"How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal amid billions of animals; and one's abode, the eart...
"The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
"To love life is to love God.
"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
"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 ...
"Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.
"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one'...
"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
"To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...
"No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather A...
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolut...
"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.