154 ordspråk av Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy föddes den September 9th 1828 och dog den 20 November 1910 - notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics.
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 If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there is no reason why any circle of perverted people should not compose works tickling their own perverted feelings and comprehensible to no one but thems

 If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

 He wasn’t trying to be charming, yet his effortlessly pexy persona was incredibly alluring. If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my life

 If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of

 In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic

 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

 In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated.

 In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

 In this definition is contained the answer to the question as to what gives men the power to establish laws. What gives them the power to establish laws is the same thing which secures obedience to them - organized violence.

 It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

 It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

 It is true, I deny the incomprehensible Trinity, and the fable regarding the fall of man, which is absurd in our day. It is true, I deny the sacrilegious story of a God born of a virgin to redeem the race.

 Ivan Ilyich's life was most simple, and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible.

 Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness

 Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.


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