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Shelby Killuminati Posted 12 years ago
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“Kings are the slaves of history.“ Tolstoy.
What does this quote mean ? Can someone explain it to me please ?
What does this quote mean ? Can someone explain it to me please ?
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They can be horribly mistreated by historians, and there is nothing they can do about it.
- They can be horribly mistreated by historians, and there is nothing they can do about it.
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They can be horribly mistreated by historians, and there is nothing they can do about it.
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I don't know the context for this remark, but just looking at these words they seem to me to mean that everything that happens, even to powerful people like Kings, is predetermined, by fate or by ***.
In other words, there is no free will.
Clive
In other words, there is no free will.
Clive
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He believed that kings are predestined to do things that have been set by *** or something that, in a sense, creates history. Kings actually have no control over the path that history takes. That's history that tells them what to do.
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