Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828 - 1910
Oil on cavas by Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1901)
Born: 9 September 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Russia
Died: 20 November 1910, Astapovo, Russia
Biography from Wikipedia and Tolstoy Centennial
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- A king is history's slave. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (1865-1869) - A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886) - 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. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1875-1877) - All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908) - All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace (1865-1869) - 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. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - And leaving the most powerful of weapons — thought and its expression — which move the world, each man employs the weapon of social activity, not noticing that every social activity is based on the very foundations against which he is bound to fight. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Patriotism and Christianity (1896) - And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death — but it's more peaceful. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1875-1877) - Another instance of a realization that the superstitious belief in progress is insufficient as a guide to life, was my brother's death. Wise, good, serious, he fell ill while still a young man, suffered for more than a year, and died painfully, not understanding why he had lived and still less why he had to die. No theories could give me, or him, any reply to these questions during his slow and painful dying. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Anything is better than lies and deceit! permalink
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina (1875-1877) - Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? (1896) - Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? (1896) - Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. permalink
Leo Tolstoy - What is Art? (1897)
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