104 quotes found
“Men always did and always will err and nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two Time and Patience.”
“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On...”
“This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. ”
“The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.”
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.”
“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.”
“A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.”
“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ”
“There are such repulsive faces in the world.”
“Sitting in his old schoolroom on the sofa with little cushions on the arms and looking into Natasha's wildly eager eyes, Rostov was carried back into that world of home and childhood which had no m...”
“Book is a nice companion”
“Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. ”
“But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.”
“Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled.But learning just as certainly tha...”
“When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians pr...”
“How can one be well...when one suffers morally?”
“They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, c...”
“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.”
