Quote of the day by Leo Tolstoy: ‘Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself’ and why almost every moral crusade ends up falling apart
Leo Tolstoy was a Russian novelist, philosopher, and one of the greatest writers in world literature. In May 1893, an aging Russian writer sat in his home at Yasnaya Polyana, drafting an essay about art and science. Outside his window, poor workers farmed the land under rules that had not changed for centuries. Inside, Count…