Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The Combination Of Causes Of Phenomena Is Beyond The Grasp Of The Human Intellect. But The Impulse To Seek Causes Is Innate In The Soul Of Man. And The Human Intellect, With No Inkling Of The Immense Variety And Complexity Of Circumstances Conditioning A Phenomenon, Any One Of Which May Be Separately Conceived Of As The Cause Of It, Snatches At The First And Most Easily Understood Approximation, And Says Here Is The Cause.

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