Leo Tolstoy

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#nietzsche #stupid

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#certain #condemns #definite #justifies #law

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#must #stifle #themselves #try #ugly

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#care #live #love #other #people

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#gold #growth #like #obtained #truth

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#cruel #founded #greater #more #power

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#asked #deaf #deaf people #go #historians

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken #conditions #first #happiness #link

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#always #even #governments #hatched #history

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #meaning #meaning of #meaning of life #serve