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
beautiful longing virtue
What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.
pain exercise injury
I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.
art philosophy men
Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.
mind atheism praying
To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.
health body machines
Our body is a machine for living.
soul eternity immortal
The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.
faith force
Faith is the force of life.
philosophy mind religion
In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
stress world amusement
No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.
division-of-labor sloth justification
Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
past soul done
Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.
eye men poverty
Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.
light purses poverty
Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.
rich compassionate
The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.