More quotes by Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed."
"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."
"It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."
"He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
"Everything I know, I know because of love."