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" The causes of every human action, Tolstoy thought, were so manifold, so complex, and so deeply hidden in unconscious motivations that it is impossible to know why anything ever happened. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 233] "

Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren


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Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren quote : The causes of every human action, Tolstoy thought, were so manifold, so complex, and so deeply hidden in unconscious motivations that it is impossible to know why anything ever happened. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 233]