Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Leo Tolstoy

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• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Important
  • Live
  • Science