I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Nikolushka and his upbringing, Andre, and religion were Princess Marya's comforts and joys; but, besides that, since every human being needs his… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No honor, no heart, no religion; a corrupt woman. I always knew it and always saw it, though I tried to deceive… — 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
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The main reason for the terrible cruelty between men today, apart from the absence religion, is still the refined complexity of life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Kitty made the acquaintance of Madame Stahl too, and this acquaintance, together with her friendship with Varenka, did not merely exercise a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — 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
“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
“«But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual… — 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
