Leo Tolstoy Quotes About History

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  • Kings are the slaves of history.

    Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage
  • The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

    Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1344, Modern Library
  • Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

  • In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

    Men  
    War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)
  • Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

    Men  
    Leo Tolstoy (2016). “WAR AND PEACE Complete Edition – All 15 Books in One Volume (World Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of Anna Karenina & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including the Biography & Memoirs of the Author)”, p.1257, e-artnow
  • Happy people have no history.

    Leo Tolstoy (2014). “Anna Karenina”, p.743, Yale University Press
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