Leo Tolstoy

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”

“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.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happines...”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”