Leo Tolstoy

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#goodness #religion #religion

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#inspirational

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#change

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. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#children #father #parenting #religion #religion

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #life

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#heartbroken #inspirational #love #sensitive #inspirational

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#marriage

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#platonic #platonic-love #tragedy #love

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #oblivious #life