"The death of a child is the greatest……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the… - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky has 585 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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…
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…
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…
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory,…
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

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More Atheist Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode… — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the… — Douglas Adams
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. — Edward Abbey
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind… — John Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism… — Joseph Addison
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a… — Tony Blair

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