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
order people want
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.
kingdoms helping significance
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.
feelings theatre actors
All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.
energy
Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.
blood medicine doctors
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
reality men humanity
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
book heart animal
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.
believe religion may
One may say with one's lips: 'I believe that God is one, and also three' - but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.
men law violence
The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.
faith inspiration world
It is within my power either to serve God or not to serve Him. Serving Him, I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, which was in my power to create.
truth lying science
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
love mean return
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
men revolution moral
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
keys trying mystery
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.