Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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  The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Knowledge, Life

  Tags in Meaningless, Attainable

• Happiness is pleasure without regret.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Love

• Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Truth

• It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

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  Topics in Beauty, Wisdom

• There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

• And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Religion

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in God

• Life did not stop, and one had to live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Inspirational

• He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in God, Life

• God is the same everywhere.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in God

• The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Art

• They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Happiness

• In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Wisdom

• Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

Leo Tolstoy (101)

Birth:	9th September, 1928
Death:	20th November, 1910
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Playwriter, Writer

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