Leo Tolstoy

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the
highest flight of human wisdom.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the
highest flight of human wisdom.

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

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

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects.

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, read more

If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out
that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as
we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we
are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense read more

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.