Happy birthday #LeoTolstoy.... whose legacy is simultaneously exploited and betrayed by the contemporary fascist Russian state...... https://countervortex.org/blog/podcast-tolstoy-would-shit/

Useless quote for 24 April:

"The most usual Conservatives are young people: those who want to live but who do not think, and have not time to think, about how to live and who therefore take as a model for themselves a way of life that they have seen."

~ Leo Tolstoy, 1889

#UselessQuote #LeoTolstoy

“I think...if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

So many minds and so many thoughts, even a dog’s confusion is written out in this book. Definitely describes the thinking and so much of the feelings of people in this place and time.

This literary classic was the first book on the following list:

https://www.britannica.com/list/12-novels-considered-the-greatest-book-ever-written

#Booksodon #reading #quotes #LiteraryClassics #LeoTolstoy

'I finally read “Moby-Dick,” and was delighted to find that it abounds with mathematical metaphors. I realized further it’s not just Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy writes about calculus, James Joyce about geometry.’

#Literature #Mathematics #HermanMelville #MobyDick #LeoTolstoy #JamesJoyce

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/opinion/the-wondrous-connections-between-mathematics-and-literature.html

#leoTolstoy
#wortesindwind

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ #AnnaKarenina by #LeoTolstoy (#AudibleStudios 2016)

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
― Leo Tolstoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

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Useless Quote for 3 Feb:

"The government assures the people that they are in danger from the invasion of another nation, or from foes in their midst, and that the only way to escape this danger is by the slavish obedience of the people to their government."

~ Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy, XIV "Christianity and Patriotism" (1895) Trans.: Leo Wiener

#UselessQuote #LeoTolstoy

"Wealth is like manure. It stinks when it piles up, and it's only useful when it's scattered."

#LeoTolstoy

#LeoTolstoy is fucking based, actually. I'm no good with words, so just read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Christianity and Patriotism (very based, but, sadly, not translated in English (will do later myself, maybe, since that is largely needed in US AND Russia rn)), "I can't be silent" (https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/I_Cannot_Be_Silent) on executions, and generally all his works, fiction or non-fiction.
I mean, he is a very conservative religious conservative, thought any sex was an offence to God and a lot of other stuff, and I think if he was to look at modern anarchists, he would be... very distraught, so to speak... but nevertheless, he is arguably more based than any modern philosopher still, and his raw basedness would not be surpassed for centuries to come.

Read Leo Tolstoy.
If you are russian/ukranian/belorussian - do it today.

#anarchism #christianity #classic

@fraying And there's nothing authors talk about so much amongst themselves as the writing bizness itself.

There's a collection of letters I'm vaguely aware of involving Leo Tolstoy talking of Charles Dickens's apparently novel practice of serialising his novels in magazines. That's part of the financing / production bit I was alluding to above, though I left it out of that toot.

(I'm not sure where this appears, though if it rings a bell with anyone I'd hugely appreciate a pointer.)

And of course the Golden Age of the American Short Story existed mostly to sell cigarettes and booze. Which were also consumed by the authors themselves, as an early instance of the circular economy ....

@annaleen @danhon

#LeoTolstoy #CharlesDickens #writing #authors #serialisatiion

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
#LeoTolstoy
Andrea Bocelli and HAUSER - Melodramma
youtu.be/4lrxaZMzz_4

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy #Change #WednesdayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #LeoTolstoy

🪦#DorothyDay died today in 1980. Here's a free article exploring the extent to which she was influenced by #LeoTolstoy: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Leo_Tolstoy_s_impact_on_Dorothy_Day_and_the_Catholic_worker_movement/13667594 #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism

Short summary: Day frequently mentioned Tolstoy, but almost only his #fiction. Paper explores extent of Tolstoy’s influence beyond just fiction based on close reading of #archivalsources. Demonstrates Tolstoy’s #political & #religious views did leave significant impression on Day & #CatholicWorkerMovement. Notably: D had early (if discreet) passion for T; T’s helped cement D’s #anarchism & #pacifism, & T (through #Hennacy) helped inspire CW’s embrace of #civildisobedience

Ok, then.
#7BooksToKnowMe
The Razor’s Edge, Somerset Maugham
Middlemarch, #GeorgeEliot
#AlcoholicsAnonymous
#TheCatcherInTheRye, JD Salinger
#WarAndPeace, #LeoTolstoy
Race For Profit, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Unstrung Heroes, Franz Lidz
What You’ve Heard Is True, Carolyn Forché

Yeah, yeah so sue me.

#Ukraine has #banned the novel #WarAndPeace" by #LeoTolstoy from being discussed in schools

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-06-10-ukraine-bans-classic-novel-war-and-peace.html

#Ukraine has #banned the novel #WarAndPeace" by #LeoTolstoy from being discussed in schools

https://www.newstarget.com/2022-06-10-ukraine-bans-classic-novel-war-and-peace.html

#Ukraine has #banned the novel #WarAndPeace" by #LeoTolstoy from being discussed in schools

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-06-10-ukraine-bans-classic-novel-war-and-peace.html

@vortex_egg Leo Tolstoy, What Shall We Do Then?, Chapter XVII

Science asserts that in every production three agents come into operation,—land, capital and labour; and along with this division it is understood that property (or its value in money) is naturally divided among those who possess one of these agents; thus, rent (the value of the ground) belongs to the land-owner; interest belongs to the capitalist; and wages to the worker.

Is this really so?

First, is it true that in every production only three agencies operate? Now, while I am writing proceeds the production of hay around me. Of what is this production composed? I am told of the land which produces the grass; of capital (scythes, rakes, pitch-forks, carts which are necessary for the housing of the hay); and of labour. But I see that this is not true. Besides the land, there is the sun and rain; and, in addition, social order, which has been keeping these meadows from any damage which might be caused by letting stray cattle graze upon them, the skill of workmen, their knowledge of language, and many other agencies of production,—which, for some unknown reason, are not taken into consideration by political economy.

The power of the sun is as necessary as the land, even more. I may mention the instances when men (in a town, for example), assume the right to keep out the sun from others by means of walls or trees. Why, then, is the sun not included among the factors of production?

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38690/38690-h/38690-h.htm

@drwho

#LeoTolstoy #WhatShallWeDo #Production #Economics #Labour #Capital