Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
- Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anything is better than lies and deceit!
- Leo Tolstoy
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.
― Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
― Leo Tolstoy
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. And to act so is immoral.
― Leo Tolstoy
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
- Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
― Leo Tolstoy
Spring is the time of plans and projects.
― Leo Tolstoy
You think that your laws correct evil – they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil – by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction.
― Leo Tolstoy
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
- Leo Tolstoy