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Leo Tolstoy quotes about life

Russian Novelist September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910

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We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life."
To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith,..."
Salvation does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one’s life. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about..."
And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful. Leo Tolstoy
The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all. Leo Tolstoy
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place. Leo Tolstoy
Medieval Italian life had recently become so fascinating for Vronsky that he even began wearing his hat and a wrap thrown over his shoulder in a medieval fashion, which was very becoming to him. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but..."
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and..."
Therein is the whole business of one’s life; to seek out and save in the soul that which is perishing. Leo Tolstoy
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. Leo Tolstoy
There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth. Leo Tolstoy
The question was summed up for him thus: "If I do not accept the answers Christianity gives to the problems of my life, what answers do I accept? Leo Tolstoy
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master. Leo Tolstoy
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. Leo Tolstoy

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