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 TolstoyTags: religion goodness anna-karenina
Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.
Leo TolstoyHappiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
Leo TolstoyTags: happiness perfection
Hell is the inability to love.
Leo TolstoyLevin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.
Leo TolstoyMy principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.
Leo TolstoyTags: levin
There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who call other men theirs, but yet have never set eyes on the other men, and their sole relation to those other men consists of doing them evil.
Leo TolstoySight-seeing, aside from the fact that everything had been seen already, could not have for him--and intelligent Russian--the inexplicable importance attached to it by the English.
Leo TolstoyTags: count-vronsky
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
Leo TolstoyGod knows, but He's waiting
Leo TolstoyTags: tuhan-tahu-tapi-dia-menunggu
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