154 ordspråk av Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy föddes den
September 9th 1828 och dog den 20 November
1910 - notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
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Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Was it by reason that I attained the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason!
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We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated
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We lost because we told ourselves we lost
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We will do almost anything for the poor man, anything but get off his back
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts
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What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
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What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
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whatever happens to be in style.
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Why must children die? I have reached the conclusion that the only purpose in the life of every man is to strengthen love within himself, and by strengthening it within himself, to infect other people with it
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