Quotes from Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Everything depends on upbringing.

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

God is the same everywhere.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Dumnezeu este doar unul ÅŸi acelaÅŸi pretutindeni.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.