War and Peace Quotes

“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:women men

“All we can know is that we know nothing.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:knowledge humility

“You say: I am not free. But I have lifted my hand and let it fall. Everyone understands that this illogical reply is an irrefutable demonstration of freedom.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:freedom action

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:self humanity history

“I lived for others, and not almost, but quite, ruined my life. And I have become calmer since I began to live only for myself.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:self others

“God is the same every where.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:God

“I see that I have begun to understand too much. And it doesn't do for man to taste of the tree of knowledge of good and evil…”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:understanding evil

“Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:nature living body

“For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:war killing

“When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:madness

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