Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

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.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

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 resolution to try a new form of life.

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

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.