War and Peace

"The only true knowledge is in knowing you know nothing."

"Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God."

"Everything is terrible, yet everything is the same."

"The beauty of nature surpasses all human art"

"The greatest freedom is the freedom of thought"

"The soul is eternal and beautiful"

"A man must live, not merely exist"

"Knowledge alone is not happiness"

"Death is not an evil, because it is universal"

"A man is truly alive only when he is struggling for a purpose"

"Solitude in the country keeps us calm and happy"

"The most remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is quite good"

"All that is important lies outside the sphere of our reason"

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy"

"We Russians are a strange people in this respect"

"To love life is to love God"

"Everything comes in time to those who know how to wait"

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced"

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women"

"Life is neither good nor bad, it simply is what we make of it"

"Love is the only reality and it is not a sentiment. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Passion is the only authentic response to life."

"A man is what his thoughts make him."

"What is the use of my life if I am to be judged like all other men?"

"Wisdom consists in not pushing against fate."

"Wars are not decided by the arrangements of generals, but by something else."

"To love a person is to see them as God intended them to be."

"One must trust in something, or life becomes impossible."

"I have learned that we must love life more than the meaning of life."