The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
Leo TolstoyAs long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
Leo TolstoyIn spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
Leo TolstoyAnd that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority.
Leo Tolstoy