Quotes Tagged With :tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

In everything, almost in everything, I wrote I was guided by the need of collecting ideas which, linked....

One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy....

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner....

I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know....

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

[Tolstoy] does not necessarily get rid of [his angry] temperament by undergoing religious conversion,....

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such....

There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars....

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or....