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 satisfaction needs
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
giving needs forget
There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.
teaching men needs
Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.
men evil needs
Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
love enemy needs
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
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.
doe needs mates
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life
tragedy needs platonic-love
And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
easier practice principle produce ten volumes
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice
church convinced crafty evil gross practice teaching theory witchcraft
I am convinced that the teaching of the church is in theory a crafty and evil lie, and in practice a concoction of gross superstition and witchcraft
beautiful beauty hear illusion strange suppose thoughts wise woman
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts
flight highest human wisdom
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
absurd born deny fable fall god redeem regarding
It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.
people poverty given
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.