C.S. Lewis vs. Leo Tolstoy

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis

1898 – 1963

Literature
United Kingdom

C.S. Lewis was a British writer and scholar best known for the children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia and for Christian apologetic works such as Mere Christianity. He served as a literature professor at Oxford and later at Cambridge.

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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give …"

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Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Literature
Russian Empire
literary realism

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors of all time.

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"I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."

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Connections

Leo Tolstoy was influenced by C.S. Lewis
Shared era: 1898 – 1910

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