While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth- that nothing in this world is terrible. He had learned that as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and lack freedom. He learned that suffering and freedom have their limits and that those limits are very near together....


Bk. XIV, ch. 12 - War and Peace (1865–1869)

Leo Tolstoy Quotes

While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness,...

While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness,...

While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness,...

While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness,...