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
changing-your-life feels
Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
love life world
One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.
world faces
There are such repulsive faces in the world.
broken-heart trying together
Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?
lying writing negative
The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
misery
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
needs lovers ifs
She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.
inspirational clever children
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand
life heart men
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual.
funny humor people
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
god men thinking
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience.
eye order movement
Why am I going?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I am going in order to be where you are," said he. "I cannot do otherwise." "Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I...
men body action
A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
purpose method purpose-of-education
The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.