"God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?"
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass…
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work…
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all…
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory,…
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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again...
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology…
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