To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Weitere Zitate von Leo Tolstoy
Zum Autor"That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself."
"Nice passion is reading."
"Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat each other seriously and cannot even insult each one another."
"I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness."
"Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."