Leo Tolstoy Quotes and its meanings

Leo Tolstoy has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

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What does Leo Tolstoy write about?

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What are the top most famous quotes by Leo Tolstoy?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Leo Tolstoy.

  • In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
  • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
  • 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.
  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
  • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
  • True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
  • Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
  • All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
  • Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
  • All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.