Leo Tolstoy Quotes - Page 4

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

If you want to be Happy,BE

Fate acts with reason. And we are always passing judgment; that's not right, and this doesn't suit us. Our happiness, my dear, is like water in a drag-net; you drag, and it is all puffed up, but pull it out and there's nothing.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life.

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

God is the same everywhere.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Dumnezeu este doar unul şi acelaşi pretutindeni.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Without the support from religion-remember, we talked about it-no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life.

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.

I led the life of so many other so-called respectable people, - that is, in debauchery. And like the majority, while leading the life of a debauche, I was convinced that I was a man of irreproachable morality.