Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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Topic

Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth Change Progress

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Three Methods of Reform

Medium

Essay

Language

Russian

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

What Is Art?

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Topic
Purpose of art

Author

Leo Tolstoy
Source
What Is Art?
Medium
Essay
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1897 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

Current Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

Another quote from the 1900s

Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

Georg Simmel

The Metropolis and Mental Life

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Topic
Loneliness

Author

Georg Simmel
Source
The Metropolis and Mental Life
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
German
Time
1903 1900s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Simmel, Georg. "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben [The Metropolis and Mental Life]." The First German Municipal Exposition. 1903, Dresden, Germany.

Current Citation

Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.

Another quote about Progress

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

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Topic
Activism Political progress Social progress Progress
Speaker
Frederick Douglass
Source
West India Emancipation
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

Another quote originally in Russian

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic
Beauty

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Brothers Karamazov
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.