War and Peace Quotes (showing 1-30 of 253) “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: humanity, nothing, wisdom 1241 likes like “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: men-women 909 likes like “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: war 556 likes like “The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: patience, time 344 likes like “Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while Im alive, I must live and be happy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: happiness, life 275 likes like “You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: inspirational, love 222 likes like “The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: love, world 216 likes like “Its not given to people to judge whats right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: judge, right, wrong 207 likes like “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: life, reason 158 likes like “We are asleep until we fall in Love!” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: love 140 likes like “I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: evil, live 138 likes like “Yes, love, ...but not the love that loves for something, to gain something, or because of something, but that love that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love which is the essence of the soul, for which no object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling now too. To love ones neighbours; to love ones enemies. To love everything - to Love God in all His manifestations. Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love. And that was why I felt such joy when I felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is he alive? ...Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is the very nature of the soul. And how many people I have hated in my life. And of all people none I have loved and hated more than her.... If it were only possible for me to see her once more... once, looking into those eyes to say...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 132 likes like “Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: death, inspirational 118 likes like “Everything I know, I know because of love.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: fiction, love 115 likes like “Its all Gods will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: death, god 113 likes like “How can one be well...when one suffers morally?” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: morals, suffering 101 likes like “Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир tags: confidence 101 likes like “Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: fragmented, reductionism, science 98 likes like “Everything depends on upbringing. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: parenting, upbringing 94 likes like “Heres my advice to you: dont marry until you can tell yourself that youve done all you could, and until youve stopped loving the women youve chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise youll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when youre old and good for nothing...Otherwise all thats good and lofty in you will be lost.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: marriage 88 likes like “God is the same everywhere.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: god 83 likes like “Here I am alive, and its not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир 73 likes like “In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: flattery, praise, relationships 70 likes like “You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: free-will, freedom 66 likes like “Life did not stop, and one had to live.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: inspirational, life 64 likes like “A Frenchmans self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and physically irresistibly fascinating to both men and women. An Englishmans self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organized state in the world and on the fact that, as an Englishman, he always knows what to do, and that whatever he does as an Englishman is unquestionably correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets. A Russian is self-assured simply because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe in the possibility of knowing anything fully.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace 62 likes like “There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before...” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: eternity 57 likes like “Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: joy, sorrow 57 likes like “One must be cunning and wicked in this world.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: cunning, wicked, world 55 likes like “What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. ” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace tags: history, humanity, power, sociology 55 likes like
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