Life is fragile and absurd. Leo Tolstoy More Quotes by Leo Tolstoy More Quotes From Leo Tolstoy Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. Leo Tolstoy welfare source work Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone? Leo Tolstoy desperation despair common An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur. Leo Tolstoy mania grandeur abnormal The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness. Leo Tolstoy chiefs army military To know God and to live is the same thing. God is Life. Leo Tolstoy knowing-god god knows Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it. Leo Tolstoy perfect ideas interesting The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left. Leo Tolstoy century wise ideas Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new. Leo Tolstoy objects study kind Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy powerful stupid witty One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind. Leo Tolstoy mind people thinking The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. Leo Tolstoy law lying way To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art. Leo Tolstoy expression mean art I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew. Leo Tolstoy nothing-new discovery I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. Leo Tolstoy ignorant men thinking We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us. Leo Tolstoy manifestation acknowledge conscious I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'. Leo Tolstoy effort space long Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse. Leo Tolstoy golden women age The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life. Leo Tolstoy goodness purpose life-is If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused. Leo Tolstoy men people art 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
