“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I...
The motto of the Museum of Bad Art (Boston) is – art too bad to be ignored. In their collection is a painting by Anonymous, Charlie and Sheba,...
It’s significant that you mention the “ruling class.” If you read Tolstoy on Shakespeare, you’ll notice that in the Appendix there is an essay by...
This may be splitting hairs. Tolstoy, Gandhi and King had a shared philosophy, and applied it to their sphere of influence. Mahatma Gandhi and...
You certainly can’t separate Tolstoy the artist from Tolstoy the thinker. Two questions occupied him: “What is Art?” and “What is the meaning of...
A thorough reading of Tolstoy’s What is Art? and A Confession, as well On Life, will show that it is absurd to reduce his philosophy, based on a...
What would you say are the “rules and values” Tolstoy applied in his philosophy of art? How would you summarize his “checklist”?
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Sidus is Latin for “star” - A couple of words from that: Desire = dē + sidus = “away from one’s star” Consider = con + sidus = “with the stars”...
I'm not crazy about the wording "assumed aunt" - I would just say "who she called aunt though she wasn't" In the pic - that's an arch - I would...
I think this is a gross misinterpretation of Tolstoy's philosophy. And it kind of makes moralism a bad word. But I wonder if you are familiar...
Do it all while you can, or you're doing nothing. New one: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ―...
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