Cost Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Tolstoy’s interest in history began early in his life. It seems to have arisen not from interest in the past as such, but from…

— Isaiah Berlin

Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“The decrees of society are temporary ones; what Tolstoy is interested in are the eternal demands of morality.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a…

— William Ernest Henley

I cannot stand Tolstoy, and reading him was the most boring literary duty I ever had to perform, his philosophy and his sense of…

— Ayn Rand

“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed . . . Tolstoy,” he”

— Brandt Legg

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

— Elif Batuman

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such obscure entities as the ‘power’ or…

— Isaiah Berlin

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important…

— Lev Shestov

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through…

— Mel Brooks