Top 39 Quotes About Tolstoy History
#1. Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
#2. History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends
Leo Tolstoy
#3. War is the most painful act of subjection to the laws of God that can be required of the human will.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Real science studies and makes accessible that knowledge which people at that period of history think important, and real art transfers this truth from the domain of knowledge to the domain of feelings.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo Tolstoy
#8. Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart.
Adrianne Palicki
#9. The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples.
Leo Tolstoy
#11. Waiting for the man she always dreamed of, she was left broken and disrespected. Losing her hope she sat only to see a man who regained her respect and will love her like no one else ever deserved.
Hi " I am 'Hardwork' " he introduced.
" I am all yours" 'Success' Blushed.
Ameya Agrawal
#12. A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia)
Patricia Briggs
#13. Congress does investigations better than they do anything else.
Mitch Landrieu
#14. All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
Leo Tolstoy
#16. God must have something to do with joy ... and with sadness.
Joan Baez
#17. Only by taking infinitesimally small units for observation (the differential of history, that is, the individual tendencies of men) and attaining to the art of integrating them (that is, finding the sum of these infinitesimals) can we hope to arrive at the laws of history.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. Kings are the slaves of history. History, that is, the unconscious, swarmlike life of mankind, uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.
Brendan Dooling
#20. History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
Leo Tolstoy
#21. Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
William Shakespeare
#22. In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
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Leo Tolstoy
#23. I missed you so fucking much, baby," he told her between placing frantic open- mouth kisses down her jawline and neck. "Every day. Every second of every day I missed you. It hurt like hell being away from you. It nearly wrecked me ... having to see you and not being able to have you.
Caisey Quinn
#24. By going with him, I would have simply imposed myself on him; I would have been a distraction. I helped him follow his heart and his greater good.
Kavita Kane
#26. Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man who kills the greatest number of his fellow-creatures.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. Only by assuming an infinitesimally small unit for observation - a differential of history (that is, the common tendencies of men) - and arriving at the art of integration (finding the sum of the infinitesimals) can we hope to discover the laws of history.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. HISTORY IS the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
#32. I cook better than a Stepford wife and Bobby Flay, COMBINED!
Laura Andersen
#33. Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.
Gerald Stern
#34. The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture
#36. The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.
Leo Tolstoy
#37. History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. They don't really pay attention to me, except when they need my blood or something. I wouldn't even be alive, if it wasn't for Kate being sick.
Jodi Picoult
#39. If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.
Leo Tolstoy
