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
men clothes unhappy
I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
men thinking ignorant
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
should smallpox artificial
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox.
happy-marriage knows
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.
hurt here-i-am trying
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
stories unhappiness allegory
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
home liberty anarchy
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.
distance eye men
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet. All his life he had been looking over the heads of those around him, while he had only to look before him without straining his eyes. p 1320
grief sacrifice reality
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.
soul classic
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982
art men people
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
brother honesty heart
But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.
witty powerful stupid
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
vegetarianism humanitarianism
vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.