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 life-is labor
The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.
men religion spirit
There are many faiths, but the spirit is one, in me, in you, and in every man.
thinking men soul
... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.
influence feels seems
Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do.
men tissues would-be
If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
heart men despair
Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.
atheist growing-up men
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at one time a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conception of religion, law, and morality, who reached freethought only after conflict and difficulty. But now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared, who grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality, or religion, that authorities existed. They grow up in ideas of negation in everything - in other words, utter savages.
feels wisest
Is it possible to say what one really feels?
mean government humanity
Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is from from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.
people trying want
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
humanity earth individual
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
littles trouble grudge
We shall all of us die, so why grudge a little trouble?
spiritual men two
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external.
people unity world
I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.