What are your thoughts about the divine Leo Tolstoy? What…
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What are your thoughts about the divine Leo Tolstoy?
What are your thoughts about the divine Leo Tolstoy? Apart from War and Peace and Anna Karenina, he wrote lots of other stuff like short stories, and non-fiction such as 'What I Believe', 'The Three Questions', 'The Kingdom of God is Within You', etc.
He was even corresponding with Gandhi and gave him the keys on how to resist with non-violence to colonial rule in 'Letter to a Hindu'. That's how great the divine Leo Tolstoy is. He was also for vegetarianism and so much more. Anyone here read anything by him rather than his big novels? Take ffir example his pacifism and unyielding love for mankind and hatred of war.
Leo Tolstoy about the absurdity of war, from "What I Believe" Chapter 10:
"Leaving their parents, their wives and children, they go in their buffoon attire, blindly submissive to some superior whom they hardly know; cold, hungry, worn out by a march above their strength, they follow him like a herd of oxen to the slaughter. But they are not oxen – they are men! They cannot help knowing that they are driven to slaughter, with the unsolvable question, ‘Why must I go?’ And with despair in their hearts they go on, many dieing off through cold, hunger, and infectious diseases, until those who are left are placed under bullets and cannon balls, and ordered to kill men whom they know nothing about. They kill and are at last killed themselves, and not one of those who kill their fellow- creature knows why he does so."
#entertainment
What are your thoughts about the divine Leo Tolstoy? Apart from War and Peace and Anna Karenina, he wrote lots of other stuff like short stories, and non-fiction such as 'What I Believe', 'The Three Questions', 'The Kingdom of God is Within You', etc.
He was even corresponding with Gandhi and gave him the keys on how to resist with non-violence to colonial rule in 'Letter to a Hindu'. That's how great the divine Leo Tolstoy is. He was also for vegetarianism and so much more. Anyone here read anything by him rather than his big novels? Take ffir example his pacifism and unyielding love for mankind and hatred of war.
Leo Tolstoy about the absurdity of war, from "What I Believe" Chapter 10:
"Leaving their parents, their wives and children, they go in their buffoon attire, blindly submissive to some superior whom they hardly know; cold, hungry, worn out by a march above their strength, they follow him like a herd of oxen to the slaughter. But they are not oxen – they are men! They cannot help knowing that they are driven to slaughter, with the unsolvable question, ‘Why must I go?’ And with despair in their hearts they go on, many dieing off through cold, hunger, and infectious diseases, until those who are left are placed under bullets and cannon balls, and ordered to kill men whom they know nothing about. They kill and are at last killed themselves, and not one of those who kill their fellow- creature knows why he does so."
#entertainment
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