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 power order
In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.
soul changing-your-life unnoticed
Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
art ideas imagination
The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation.
inspirational life wisdom
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
doubt moments
I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.
inspirational karma peace
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
girl class two
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
inspirational people entertainment
People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them
inspirational romantic long
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
sarcastic style literature
He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
lying pleasure discovering
The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.
smallpox ought
They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.
clever stupid handsome
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.
joy way limitless
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us.