There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
Leo TolstoyAll violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo TolstoyI feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth.
Leo TolstoyIn vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
Leo Tolstoy