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
atheism causes agnosticism
And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
men mind may
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
love war humility
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
men satisfaction needs
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
military issues people
There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'
greatness men names
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.
law divine-right government
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.
suicidal writing men
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
war men evil
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
lying believe math
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
lying teaching practice
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.
war book heart
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
greatness simplicity christ
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
thinking matter moments
No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.