Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

• All people live and act partly according to their own thoughts, partly according to the thoughts of other people. The extent to which people live according to their own thoughts and how much according to the thoughts of other people is one of the main differences between people.

• Why talk when words can not express what you feel.

• If you seek perfection, you will never be satisfied.

• In order to live honestly, one must rush, get confused, make mistakes, start and quit again, and start again, and quit again, and fight forever.

• I know only two real misfortunes in life: remorse and illness. And happiness is only the absence of these two evils.

• There are no conditions to which a person could not get used, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives the same way.

• If good has a cause, it is no longer good; if it has a consequence – a reward, it is also not good. Therefore, goodness is outside the chain of causes and effects.

• Digging in our soul, we often dig out something that would lie there unnoticed.

• A scientist is one who knows a lot from books; educated – one who has mastered all the most common knowledge and techniques of his time; enlightened – one who understands the meaning of his life.

• A thought moves life only when it has been obtained by its own mind, or even when it answers a question that has already arisen in the soul. An alien thought, perceived by the mind and memory, does not affect life and gets along with actions that are contrary to it.