Count Leo Tolstoy Count Leo Tolstoy Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith. Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Only those live who do good. True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important.