Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Conceit is incompatible with understanding.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking...
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
The strongest of all warriors are these two
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.
God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.
I began to realize that the most profound wisdom of man was rooted in the answers given by faith and that I did not have the right to deny them on the grounds of reason; above all, I realized that these answers alone can form a reply to the question of life.
The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
