Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 09. September 1828 |
Geburtsort | Russian_Empire |
Todesort | Lev_Tolstoy_(rural_locality) |
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Beschreibung | Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (/ˈtoʊlstɔɪ, ˈtɒl-/; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, IPA: [ˈlʲef nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]; 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 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. He received nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902, and 1909; the fact that he never won is a major controversy. |
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
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.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
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.
If you want to be happy, be.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
