Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; 9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1828
CountryRussian Federation
love life-and-love love-you
To get rid of an enemy one must love him.
fall boys apples
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its stalk withers? Because it is dried by the sun, because it grows too heavy, or because the boy standing under the tree wants to eat it? None of these is the cause.... Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own freewill is in the historical sense not free at all but is bound up with the whole course of history and preordained from all eternity.
believe men evil
He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.
enough
Enough or not...it will have to do
action opinion theory
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
important settling settling-down
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...
lying law way
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.
mean men half
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
fiction conflict versus
Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.
peace war growth
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
god men deeds-and-words
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
book years paris
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
humanity doe march
The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
hair gone
When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!