104 quotes found
“It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.”
“God is the same everywhere.”
“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as those of the French, but we had told ourselves earl...”
“He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.”
“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west sl...”
“Rostov kept thinking about that brilliant feat of his, which, to his surprise, had gained him the St. George Cross and even given him the reputation of a brave man - and there was something in it t...”
“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consent to carry out the will of these weak individua...”
“Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations betw...”
“What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!”
“Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, ...”
“Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy”
“He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.”
“To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke ...”
“Those are the men,' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.”
“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy craft...”
“But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to p...”
“Dumnezeu este doar unul i acelai pretutindeni.”
“How can it be that Ive never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! Its all vanity, its all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. There is nothing...”
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
“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.”
