Lev Tolstoy
Author: Lev Tolstoy
Publisher: Modern Library Classics (2000)

I and millions of men, men who lived ages ago and men living now - peasants, the poor in spirit and the learned who have thought and written about it, in their obscure words saying the same thing - we are all agreed about this one thing: what we must live for and what is good.  I and all men have only one firm, incontestable clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by reason - it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no effects.