Leo Tolstoy quotes.

“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”

“It's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.”

“The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.”

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

“War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.”

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”

“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”