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333,594 ratings, 4.16 average rating, 17,764 reviews. War and Peace Quotes Showing 1-30 of 1,603. “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. 3459 likes.
These words from the St. Petersburg society hostess Anna Pavlovna Scherer brilliantly open War and Peace in Book One, Chapter 1, establishing a dual focus on the wartime idea of Napoleonic aggression and the peacetime idea of conversation at a high-society party.These lines immediately attune us to the fact that war and peace are constantly interwoven in the novel, as military maneuvers go ...
24 of the best book quotes from War and Peace. 01. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. Leo Tolstoy. author. War and Peace. book. wisdom.
Volume 1, Part 1: Chapters 5–6 Quotes. “There’s war now against Napoleon. If it were a war for freedom, I could understand it, I’d be the first to go into military service; but to help England and Austria against the greatest man in the world . . . is not right.”.
Oct 7, 2018 · Back in January, I wrote a list of reading goals. One of them was to read either Anna Karenina or War and Peace.As it happened, my local library put together what they called the Big Book Club in an effort to tackle books with extraordinary page lengths, starting this summer with Tolstoy’s War and Peace.I registered to get notifications and took a deep breath looking at the reading schedule ...
Famous Quotations from War and Peace. “All we can know is that we know nothing. And that is the height of human wisdom.”. “Everything, everything I understand, I understand only because I love.”. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”. “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as ...
Leo Tolstoy. We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. Leo Tolstoy. Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment. Leo Tolstoy.
Jan 27, 2021 · Here is a list of Leo Tolstoy 'War and Peace' quotes that are simply exemplary. 21. "The majority of the people of that time paid not attention to the general course of things, but were guided only by the personal interests of the day. And those people were the most useful figures of that time." -'War And Peace'.
It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God.
5 Key Lessons From War And Peace. 1. The futility of war: One of the main themes of War and Peace is the realization that war is ultimately a futile endeavor. The novel depicts the horrors and destruction caused by war, as well as the senselessness of conflicts driven by personal ambitions and political power struggles.
