Russian author, essayist and philosopher.
He is one of the world's pre-eminent writers becoming famous through his epic novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
Towards the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy became increasingly interested in a version of pacifist Christianity with support
for a strand of anarchist Communism. His exposition of pacifism, vegetarianism and non-violence had a profound influence on famous
personalities like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
Gandhi considered Leo Tolstoy to be "the greatest apostle of non-violence that the present age has produced".
(1828-1910)
History would be an excellent thing, if only it were true.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
~ 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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the
establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But now everything will be different. It is nonsense to believe that life will not allow it,
that the past will not allow it. I must struggle to live a better life, a far better life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The truth is so evident, so binding, and so generally acknowledged
that it is only necessary to put it clearly before men for the evil called war to become quite impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me,
and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men,
is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
~ Leo Tolstoy
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was known as the Father of Nation played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle.
Thinker, statesman and nationalist leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi not only led his own country to independence
but also influenced political activists of many persuasions throughout the world with his methods and philosophy of
nonviolent confrontation, or civil disobedience.
If he had wanted, Gandhi could have lived a very comfortable life as a lawyer. Instead he devoted it to prayer,
fasting and meditation. He wore basic clothes and lived off fruit, vegetables and milk. He gave up his personal comfort
to bring well-being to millions of others. He was one of the greatest men of this planet.
(1869-1948)
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~ Aldous Huxley
Think for yourself, and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so, too.
~ VoltaireMore Proverbs
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