“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But in Old Rimrock, NJ, in 1995, when the Ivan Ilyches come trooping back to lunch at the clubhouse after their morning… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Leo Tolstoy observes, “Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”6” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist, writer, essayist, philosopher, Christian anarchist, pacifist,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Leo Tolstoy Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.” — Pravin K. Shah Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. —Leo Tolstoy” — Beth Kanter Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay. — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and… — Joel Carmichael Copy Share Image
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It was a truth that Leo Tolstoy declaimed a century or so ago: our response to art has the agency to do… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you want to be happy, be" -- Leo Tolstoy "The hard part is knowing it's easy" -- Abraham Hicks” — Ina Zajac Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“When I was little, I didn’t understand that you could change a few sounds in a name or a phrase and have… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“What, then, is patriotism? “Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels,” said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano.… — Velimir Khlebnikov Copy Share Image
