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Meaning Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
- The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...
- Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and…
- The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by…
- The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
- Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
- For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as…
- Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
- People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity…
- The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's…
- What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition…
- The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.
- I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same…
- He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could…
- but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it…
- Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
- I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,…
More Meaning Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach
- Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to… — Robert Baden-Powell
- It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have… — Ansel Adams
- When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally… — Ansel Adams
- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara
- Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks