Tolstoy On War Quotes

“He won’t have anything of his own. He won’t invent, won’t undertake anything,” thought Prince Andrei, “but he’ll listen to everything, remember everything, put everything in its place, won’t hinder anything useful or allow anything harmful. He understands that there is something stronger and more significant than his will—the inevitable course of events—and he’s able to see them, able to understand their significance, and, in view of that significance, is able to renounce participating in those events, renounce his personal will, and direct it elsewhere.” (III, 2, xvi, 744–45)”
― Rick McPeak, Tolstoy On War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in "War and Peace"