Russian "novelist, philosopher".
"He is known as one of the world's greatest novelists; wrote "War and Peace," 1865-69 and "Resurrection," 1899."
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired."
"Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith."
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.