“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Evidently habit does wonders! God knows what habit can do with anyone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“All we Karamazovs are such insects. And angel as you are, that insect lives in you, too, and will stir up a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And man has actually invented God. And what's strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Whoever does not believe in God will not believe in the people of God. But he who believes in the people of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
And man has actually invented God. And whats strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man's arising-that I understand.... And yet I am sorry to lose God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I've nothing against God. Of course, God is only a hypothesis, but ... I admit that He is needed ... for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No matter. He is holy. He carries in his heart the secret of renewal for all: that power which will, at last,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If they drive God from earth, we shall shelter him underground - Dmitri Karamazov” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
