Explaining History Quotes

“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The more we try to explain sensibily these phenomena of history, the more senseless and incomphrensible they become for us.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace and Other Works by Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Awakening, and Master and Man