“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy book A Confession
Source: A Confession
Quotes from bookA Confession
Leo TolstoyOriginal title Исповедь (Russian, 1882)
A Confession , or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties.
“The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.”
Leo Tolstoy book A Confession
Source: Confession (1882), Ch. 5, translated by David Patterson, 1983
Source: A Confession
