History Quotes by Leo Tolstoy
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History as the life of peoples is a theme in these quotes. Tolstoy points out that history is an unconscious, universal flow that records the actions of kings and ordinary people alike. He also warns that trying to explain every event can make it seem more senseless, and that true freedom would turn history into a series of random accidents.
![“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/leo-tolstoy-55_history_from-some-words-about-war-and-peace-in-t_2034144.jpg)
![“[from Some words about 'War and Peace' ] For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. [...] The historian has to deal with the results…” quote by Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/leo-tolstoy-55_art_from-some-words-about-war-and-peace-for_2609297.jpg)
