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
Leo Tolstoy quotes about
sad joy sorrow
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
writing stories sides
I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.
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.
religious taken acceptance
Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?
compassion animal vegetarianism
'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
inspirational-love
Where there is love, there is God also.
hands people knows
Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands.
giving important answers
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live
war evil people
To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'
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.
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.
inspirational life way
There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.
attitude losing lost
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
war would-be conviction
If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.