More quotes by Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."
"It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. The screw would not go in, would not come out, but turned in the same groove without catching hold, and it was impossible to stop turning it."
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."