Leo Tolstoy quotes
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
Take this quote mobile"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
"Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless."
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."