Reason Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you feel that you are not free, look for the reason inside you.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Reason is often the slave of sin; it strives to justify it.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

— Leo Tolstoy

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

— Leo Tolstoy

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who…

— Leo Tolstoy

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore…

— Leo Tolstoy

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is…

— Leo Tolstoy

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

— Leo Tolstoy

“If we allow that human life can be governed by reason, the possibility of life is annihilated”

— Leo Tolstoy

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would…

— Leo Tolstoy

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

— Leo Tolstoy

But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Leo Tolstoy

I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of…

— Leo Tolstoy

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his…

— Leo Tolstoy

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this…

— Leo Tolstoy

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live…

— Leo Tolstoy

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions…

— Leo Tolstoy

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware…

— Leo Tolstoy

There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbor and not to throttle him?. They…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Was it through reason that I arrived at the necessity of loving my neighbor and not throttling him?...Not reason. Reason discovered the…

— Leo Tolstoy

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My reasoning proceeded in the following manner. "Like man and his power of reason," I said to myself, "the nowledge of faith…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of…

— Leo Tolstoy

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;…

— Leo Tolstoy

Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he…

— Leo Tolstoy

Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." -…

— Leo Tolstoy

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

— Leo Tolstoy

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has…

— Leo Tolstoy

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

— Leo Tolstoy

No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are…

— Leo Tolstoy

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . .…

— Leo Tolstoy