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 mad mad-men
Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself...
next arise halt
Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?
military ignorance discipline
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.
imagination mind world
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.
hero forgotten villain
All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
feet way sun
And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go.
ignorance men effort
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.
violence authority bases
Physical violence is the basis of authority.
men born dies
Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.
christian being-free helping
A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.
lying lines psychological
The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?
rivers water people
People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.
russia growth suffering
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.
The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.