Count Leo Tolstoy
17 quotations
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Only those live who do good.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Boredom: the desire for desires.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.