Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy


Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness













The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness

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

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul








Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness