Leo Tolstoy Soul Quotations

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life. There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does

But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.