Ivan Karamazov

"No idea is worth the tears of a single tortured child."

"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors, I think, that one cannot love."

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

"Cruelty is the most fundamental principle of nature."

"I rebel against the world order in the name of compassion."

"A man without conviction is like a ship without a rudder."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's suffering."

"Reason alone cannot explain the mysteries of existence."

"Evil thrives when good people remain silent."

"The greatest tragedy is to live without purpose."

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

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish"

"I feel as though I were in a madhouse and sometimes, indeed, I think I am mad myself"

"To be conscious is to be in anguish"

"I cannot understand how one can love one's neighbors; it seems to me that one can love only what is far away"

"The Devil is bound to take interest in humanity since God is always looking the other way"

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

"I want to love actual life, I am not in love with it"

"The suffering of children is the most terrible argument against the existence of a Creator"

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

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

"Conscience is a phantom from within us"

"I am not rebelling against my maker; I am only not accepting His creation"

"A question asked in youth echoes through a lifetime"

"A lie spoken with conviction is more dangerous than a truth spoken in doubt"

"I love humanity, but I am amazed at myself: I could never love my neighbor."

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

"Suffering is the only origin of consciousness."