Ivan Karamazov

"If there is no God, then everything is permissible"

"The human heart is a battlefield where good and evil wage eternal war"

"The greatest crime is not to act against another, but to refuse to act for him"

"Art is the soul's attempt to transcend the prison of the flesh"

"The hardest truth is often the simplest one we refuse to see"

"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"The wound of knowledge cannot be healed"

"Faith does not, in the end, mean believing. Faith means uselessness"

"Consciousness is the greatest torment available to mankind"

"Without suffering, what is the incentive to live"

"One must not fear the abyss, but learn to navigate it"

"Knowledge that brings no peace is mere intellectual vanity"

"The hardest thing is to bear witness to injustice in silence"

"I believe in Russia, I love the Russian people"

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted"

"The question is not whether God exists, but whether man can live without Him"

"Cruelty to children is the worst of all possible crimes"

"I want to love life even in its unreasonableness"

"True freedom comes not from the absence of constraints, but from the ability to choose one's path"

"The pursuit of happiness often leads to unhappiness"

"The greatest tragedy is the loss of innocence without the gain of wisdom"

"The burden of knowledge is heavier than the burden of ignorance"

"The search for truth often leads us away from comfort"

"In solitude, we either find ourselves or lose ourselves completely"

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"If God does not exist, then everything is permitted."

"Act always as if the maxim of your action were to become a universal law."

"Consciousness is a disease."