Leo Tolstoy Quotes - 4 quotes

Leo Tolstoy was a renowned Russian author and philosopher. He is best known for his epic novels “War and Peace” (1869) and “Anna Karenina” (1877), which are considered masterpieces of realist fiction. Tolstoy was born into an aristocratic family on September 9, 1828, in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia. He ... show more

quote icon When you love someone, you love the whole person just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.

- Leo Tolstoy

quote icon Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

- Leo Tolstoy

quote icon Leo Tolstoy was even bolder: “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”

- Leo Tolstoy

quote icon The activity of art is based on the fact that a man, receiving through his sense of hearing or sight another man's expression of feeling, is capable of experiencing the emotion which moved the man who expressed it. To take the simplest example; one man laughs, and another who hears becomes merry; or a man weeps, and another who hears feels sorrow. A man is excited or irritated, and another man seeing him comes to a similar state of mind.

- Leo Tolstoy

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