Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian novelist and moral philosopher whose two great novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are among the supreme achievements of world literature. After completing Anna Karenina he underwent a spiritual crisis recorded in A Confession, and devoted the second half of his life to a radical Christian anarchism centered on the Sermon on the Mount, the renunciation of violence, and the dignity of manual labor. His later writings, including The Kingdom of God Is Within You, profoundly influenced Gandhi's development of nonviolent political action.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Russian
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental, Christian
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
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Attributed to Leo Tolstoy:
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”