Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
More Quotes from Leo Tolstoy:
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.Leo Tolstoy
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
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Leo Tolstoy
I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft
Leo Tolstoy
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
Leo Tolstoy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: God Quotes, Life Quotes, Love Quotes, Matter QuotesNature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann G. Hamann
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim
You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
Imelda Staunton