Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

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• The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
• If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
• Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the…
• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son…
• Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even…
• There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of…
• Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
• If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
• Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
• If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do…
• There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with…
• To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
• We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
• Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
• I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...
• If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
• Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
• In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall...
• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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