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by Leo Tolstoy (Author), Bob Blaisdell (Editor)
This collection of inspirational thoughts represents Tolstoy's lifelong quest to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Chronicled as a biographical arrangement of his philosophical views, featuring quotations from his earliest diaries, stories, religious writings, political tracts, conversations, and letters collected throughout his lifetime, Tolstoy tackles subjects such as self-improvement, education, marriage and family, good and evil, peace, war, and civil disobedience with his own unique perspective. These selections reveal Tolstoy as a sage fully immersed in and challenged by life: an intense person, writer, father, and husband. Providing an inspirational and spiritual journey of a man's existential pursuit, Tolstoy in Search of Truth and Meaning features the fullest expression of his ideals for readers seeking insight and wisdom from one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time.
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This collection of inspirational thoughts represents Leo Tolstoy's profound spiritual odyssey to find meaning and understand life's purpose. Chronicled as a biographical arrangement of his philosophical views, featuring quotations from his earliest diaries, stories, religious writings, political tracts, conversations, and letters collected throughout his lifetime, the collection shows how Tolstoy tackles subjects such as self-improvement, education, marriage and family, good and evil, peace, war, and civil disobedience with his own unique perspective. The selections, edited by Russian literature scholar, Robert Blaisdell, reveal Tolstoy as a sage fully immersed in and challenged by life: an intense person, writer, father, and husband.
Best known for his literary masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's existential journey features the fullest expression of his ideals and is a requisite for anyone seeking deeper knowledge and appreciation of the intricacies of human existence.
"To know God and to live is one and the same thing. God is life. Live seeking God, and then you will not live without God."
--Confession "Faith--yes, we need faith. We can't do without faith. Not, however, faith in what other people tell us, but faith in what we arrive at ourselves, by our own thought, our own reason."
--The Light Shines in Darkness "To say a man should not be guided by reason is the same as to say to a man carrying a lamp in a dark catacomb that, to find the way out, he must extinguish his lamp and be guided, not by light, but by something else."
--"Reason and Religion" "In old age one becomes indifferent to the fact that one will never see the results of one's activity. But the results will be there."
--In conversation with A. B. Goldenveiser, 6 January 1908
