Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
Leo TolstoyPower, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
Leo TolstoyGovernments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.
Leo Tolstoy"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."
Leo TolstoyThere are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad.
Leo Tolstoy