Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17)
Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17)
What it means
Pierre says this after surviving captivity, which he would go through again. Being knocked off your routine feels like disaster at first. Often it is the opening.
The source
"Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins." Leo Tolstoy said it in War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17). Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1922.
"We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins."Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1922, War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17). Text read at gutenberg.org.
Who said it
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Russian novelist who wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1878), then spent his later life on questions of faith and simple living.
Questions
- What does "Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins." mean?
- Pierre says this after surviving captivity, which he would go through again. Being knocked off your routine feels like disaster at first. Often it is the opening.
- Who said "Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins."?
- Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Source: War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17).
- What is the original wording?
- We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins (Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1922). Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1922.
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"Thrown out of your usual rut? That is where the new and good begins." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17), trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, 1922). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/thrown-out-of-your-usual-rut-that-is
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- We can know only that we know nothing. That is the height of wisdom.War and Peace, Vol. 2, Part 2, ch. 1 (Maude Book 5, ch. 1)
- Everything I understand, I understand only because I love.War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 1, ch. 16 (Maude Book 12, ch. 16)
- There is no greatness without simplicity, goodness and truth.War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 3, ch. 18 (Maude Book 14, ch. 18)
- While there is life, there is happiness.War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 4, ch. 17 (Maude Book 15, ch. 17)
- Hardest and most blessed of all: to love this life in your suffering.War and Peace, Vol. 4, Part 3, ch. 15 (Maude Book 14, ch. 15)