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
peace too-much instinct
Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy
happiness love-is people
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.
work rewards
... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.
dear-lord world madhouses
Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!
writing play laughing
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
death ideas mistaken
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
history people humanity
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.
law divinity world
There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.
god heart light
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.
meaning-of-life circumstances science-and-religion
Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.
boredom desire seeking
Boredom is desire seeking desire.
inspirational people waiting
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.
art mean expression
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.
kind study objects
Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.