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
heart dark men
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
lambs doe cry
Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
beautiful teaching personality
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
growing-up struggle men
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by virtue of his own struggle and toil; but now a new type of born freethinker has been appearing, who’ve never even heard that there have been laws of morality and religion, and that there are authorities, but who simply grow up with negative ideas about everything, that is savages.
thinking path lost
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
inspirational inspiring truth
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
happiness want want-to-be-happy
If you want to be happy, be.
love life mean
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
men law suffering
Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
wise keys people
The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.
doe majority changing-your-life
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
inspirational intelligent men
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
love-you
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
empowering pursuit humankind
Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.