History & The Arts
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
...cognition leads them up to this truth. And the truth is death.’ ‘Art, poetry?’ For a long time, under the influence of the success of human praise, I tried to persuade myself that that was a thing which could be done, even though death should come and destroy everything, my deeds, as well as my memory of them; but soon I came to see that that, too, was a deception....