Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. – Leo Tolstoy
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. – Leo Tolstoy
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841