"When reason fails, the devil helps!" — Fyodor Dostoevsky

When reason fails, the devil helps! - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"When reason fails, the devil helps!"

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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…
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,…

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More Devil Quotes

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce

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