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
inspirational art design
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
men order alive
In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
would-be sometimes knows
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
simple ordinary terrible
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
love enemy divine
You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.
perfection levels pauses
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
one-love persons always-loved-you
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
kings slave
Kings are the slaves of history.
nature people quality
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...
inspirational karma men
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
life reason possibility
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
suffering morality wells
How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
knows
Everything I know, I know because of love.
love inspirational people
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.