Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and philosopher, best known for his masterpieces 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina', which explore complex human emotions and moral dilemmas.

Born
September 9, 1828
Died
November 20, 1910
Quotes
824
Rank
#17

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"People continued regardless of all that leads man forward to try to unite the incompatibles:;: the virtue of love, and what is opposed to love, namely, the restraining of evil by violence. And such a teaching, despite its inner contradiction, was so firmly established that the very people who recognize love as a virtue accept as lawful at the same time an order of life based on violence and allowing men not merely to torture but even to kill one another."

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"A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it."

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"No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness."

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