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Quotations By Leo Tolstoy


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

Beauty
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Beliefs
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

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

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

Love
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.