Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes and words of wisdom

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
Found in the topic Stupidity.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Found in the topic Change.

"The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes."
Found in the topic Gains.

"All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion."
Found in the topic Alike.

"The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
Found in the topic Sorrow.

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
Found in the topic Government.

"Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be."
Found in the topic Eternity.

"If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals."
Found in the topic Animals.

"Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
Found in the topic Life.

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."
Found in the topic Mathematics.

"The strongest of all warriors are these two ? Time and Patience."
Found in the topic Patience.

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
Found in the topic Housework.

"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 relationship between master and slave."
Found in the topic Money.

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
Found in the topic Truth.

"I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders."
Found in the topic Unite.

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
Found in the topic Potential.

Interesting Quotes

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford - US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.George Bernard Shaw - Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)