Ivan Karamazov

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for."

"To love humanity as it is now is impossible. Only to love it as one desires it to be."

"Reason alone is insufficient to determine the meaning of life."

"People blame their circumstances, but I do not believe in circumstances."

"I am not a man of faith; I am a man of questions."

"Education is the most dangerous thing."

"The human soul craves mystery; it cannot be satisfied with mere facts."

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

"If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is lawful."

"The spiritual power of the church should be completely separated from the temporal power."

"I love mankind, but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love man in particular."

"Consciousness, even if it caused suffering, is preferable to unconscious happiness."

"Rebellion and revolution are the fruit of exhaustion and darkness."

"Miracles are quite different from what I think they are in my dreams."

"The gift of freedom is the greatest gift, and yet it is the most terrible."

"I would rather be unhappy and know the truth than be happy in ignorance."

"The truth is often the hardest thing to bear."

"Man is free to choose, but he is not free from the consequences of his choice."

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

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness"

"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than finding someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom"

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

"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors"

"The Devil's greatest trick was convincing men that he does not exist"

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"

"Doubt is the beginning of wisdom"

"The pursuit of truth requires courage"

"I am not running away from my sufferings, I am running towards something"

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

"I cannot accept a love based on the suffering of tortured children"