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Leo Tolstoy — Portrait after a picture by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Leo Tolstoy

Russian author

1828–1910

31 quotes, most often on Love, God and Morality.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one’s sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. XIV, ch. 15
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894), Chapter XII, Conclusion—Repent Ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand
- God
- Life & Death
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XII
- God
- Love
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
God alone exists truly. Man manifests Him in time, space and matter.
Entry in Tolstoy’s Diary (1 November 1910)
- God

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