Leo Tolstoy — Spiritual Quotes

73 quotes · Novelist, Philosopher

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Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Spiritual

“The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.”

Men Self Death

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Spiritual

“At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.”

Men Mean Heart

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“India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world”

World India

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“The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.”

Giving Office

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“I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.”

Knows Wanted Stills

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“Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.”

Men Mother Heaven

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Spiritual

“To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life.”

Knows God

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Spiritual

“I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.”

Pain Exercise

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“When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death”

Thinking Goes On Hunting

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“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

Men Long Suffering

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Spiritual

“Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.”

Taken Anxiety Preparation

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“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.”

Children Father Parenting

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