Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.

Energy is based on love.

We're asleep until we love.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

Each time of life has its own kind of love.

And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people.