The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I do not live when I loose belief in the existence of God. I should long ago have killed myself had I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It's as if I had been going downhill when I thought I was going uphill. That's how it was. In society's opinion… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No, I'd better not speak of it. It's a secret for me alone, of vital importance for me, and not to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The idea of seeking help in her difficulty in religion was as remote from her as seeking help from Alexey Alexandrovitch himself,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Involuntarily it appeared to me that there, somewhere, was someone who amused himself by watching how I lived for thirty or forty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Indeed, since ancient times, when the life of which I do know something began, people who knew the arguments concerning the vanity… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
