The Brothers Karamazov

"Consciousness is the greatest torment available to mankind"

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

"Debauchery is not villainy, but it is vile"

"The wound of knowledge cannot be healed"

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

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

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

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

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

"In dreams we glimpse the person we might become if we had the courage"

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

"The capacity to feel shame is what separates man from the beasts"

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

"A man can get used to anything, even to happiness"

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

"The fearful mystery of human will cannot be comprehended by reason alone"

"Our Russian soul is wide, it can contain all contradictions"

"The degree of one's freedom determines the degree of one's responsibility"

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

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

"A lie told often enough becomes a kind of truth to the teller."

"Men are tormented by the freedom they possess."

"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."

"The human heart contains both heaven and hell."

"The innocent must sometimes pay for the guilty."

"I cannot accept a world where innocent children suffer."

"The question of God's existence cannot be resolved by reason alone."

"Freedom and love are not things to be commanded."

"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract."

"I am not rebelling against my maker; I simply refuse to accept his creation."