Leo Tolstoy: Misunderstood Genius

tolstoy was quite outspoken and angered many with his words of wisdom against government, warfare, money, and the church. he was against the church, yet his beliefs were centered around the true meaning of what the church was (is) trying to hide and control (manipulate), use for power and control over humanity instead of goodwill for all humanity. leo tolstoy was an eloquent, revolutionary with many brilliant things to say.

"Money is a new form of slavery, distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that there is no human relation between master and slave."

"Slavery is taking the fruit of another's labor by force, whether the force is based on ownership of the slave or the money he needs to live."

"In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and ... consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men."

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most undoubted meaning is for rulers nothing else but a means of realizing their ambitions and venal ends; for the governed it is a renouncing of human dignity, intelligence, and conscience, and a slavish submission to the rulers. Wherever patriotism is championed, it is preached invariably in that shape. Patriotism is slavery."

"You'd think it would be clear to men who can reason that violence breeds violence & that the only escape from it is to not take part in it."

- Leo Tolstoy

troon did you know that the original title of "war and peace" was actually "war, what is it good for"? doesn't sound all that "genius", init.

  On 2/19/2013 at 7:43 PM, dese manz hatin said:

troon did you know that the original title of "war and peace" was actually "war, what is it good for"?

FLOL

In my humble opinion, the greatest writer of them all.

I'm not really bothered about his personal life or beliefs. I know he was quite the gambler.

  On 2/19/2013 at 7:41 PM, Redruth said:

"I raise you all in, bitch!"

He also admitted to cheating. Don't trust that face.

i think he's pretty well understood.

never change your avatar, zaphod. it goes with everything you write

He is awesome, but Dostoevsky pwns him

  On 2/19/2013 at 7:41 PM, Redruth said:

 

 

tolstoy was quite outspoken and angered many with his words of wisdom against government, warfare, money, and the church. he was against the church, yet his beliefs were centered around the true meaning of what the church was (is) trying to hide and control (manipulate), use for power and control over humanity instead of goodwill for all humanity. leo tolstoy was an eloquent, revolutionary with many brilliant things to say.

 

 

 

 

 

"Money is a new form of slavery, distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that there is no human relation between master and slave."

 

"Slavery is taking the fruit of another's labor by force, whether the force is based on ownership of the slave or the money he needs to live."

 

"In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering; and ... consequently, this feeling should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men."

 

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most undoubted meaning is for rulers nothing else but a means of realizing their ambitions and venal ends; for the governed it is a renouncing of human dignity, intelligence, and conscience, and a slavish submission to the rulers. Wherever patriotism is championed, it is preached invariably in that shape. Patriotism is slavery."

 

"You'd think it would be clear to men who can reason that violence breeds violence & that the only escape from it is to not take part in it."

 

- Leo Tolstoy

and then he became a giant shitty christian and abandoned his family for the woods. whatta cunt

"After drinking the icy water, the horse sighed, moving his wet, firm lips, from the whiskers of which transparent drops dripped into the trough, and stood still as if in thought; then suddenly he gave a loud snort." - Tolstoy.

free .pdf of his "What is Art":

http://archive.org/details/whatisart00tolsuoft

Wow I had no idea he wrote in English

Tolstoy was a brilliant man. If you're interested in his late politics (or the idea of Christian anarchism in general) then you need to read The Kingdom of God is Within You. It's fascinating!

  On 2/19/2013 at 7:47 PM, Roksen Creek said:

In my humble opinion, the greatest writer of them all.

 

I'm not really bothered about his personal life or beliefs. I know he was quite the gambler.

  On 2/19/2013 at 8:03 PM, Roksen Creek said:

He also admitted to cheating. Don't trust that face.

it is only when we lose our genuine wanting for change that we truly fall and even then, there is always the chance that we will eventually regain proper perspective and root out our folly