Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
- Source
- War and Peace
- Date
- 1869
- Local voice
- Narrator voice · Narrator
Meaning of “There is no greatness where there is not…”
Greatness is stripped of spectacle and measured instead by moral clarity, goodness, and freedom from unnecessary complication.
Where does it come from?
War and Peace; the narrator’s judgment of greatness appears in the novel’s discussion of Kutuzov, simplicity, goodness and truth.
Why the local voice matters
War and Peace; the narrator’s judgment of greatness appears in the novel’s discussion of Kutuzov, simplicity, goodness and truth.
