It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future. Leo Tolstoy life-changing people past In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. Leo Tolstoy mind philosophy religion The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous. Leo Tolstoy march humanity doe Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. Leo Tolstoy patriotism training principles The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. Leo Tolstoy reincarnation eternity soul To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege. Leo Tolstoy atheism praying mind Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul. Leo Tolstoy men philosophy art And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. Leo Tolstoy majority yesterday men There is no genius where there is not simplicity. Leo Tolstoy simplicity genius What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life. Leo Tolstoy longing virtue beautiful When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.' Leo Tolstoy express-yourself i-can should Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling. Leo Tolstoy men mean art This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels. Leo Tolstoy physicians comfort lying Boredom is desire seeking desire. Leo Tolstoy seeking boredom desire I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart. Leo Tolstoy judging heart people He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul. Leo Tolstoy filled soul fear Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Leo Tolstoy space beautiful men Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness Leo Tolstoy effort mean It boils down to this: we should have done with humbug, and let war be war, and not a game ... If there were none of this magnanimity business in warfare, we should never go to war, except for something worth facing certain death for. Leo Tolstoy should-have games war Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not. Leo Tolstoy believe-in-you knows believe
