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
art important language
The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.
stupid ignorance doe
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.
art lying people
People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure... People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.
progress answers clarification
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.
people feelings age
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.
pain love-you order
You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.
baby children distance
From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.
discovery nothing-new
I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.
teaching men needs
Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
women social social-life
Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.
work welfare human-life
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.
art real mean
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law courts, police, charitable institutions, factory inspections... It should be obtained by man's free and joyous activity.
art book mountain
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
religious art lying
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.