The Brothers Karamazov

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

"I don't want harmony, I want to remain in revolt, even if I am wrong."

"Man has it all in his hands, and yet he lets it all slip from his fingers for fear."

"Everything is lawful if infinity does not exist."

"Consciousness is an illness."

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

"I rebel against suffering, but I cannot rebel against the logic of it."

"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."

"To understand all is to forgive all, yet understanding is impossibly difficult."

"The heart speaks a language that reason cannot understand."

"Doubt is not weakness but the beginning of wisdom."

"Every person carries within them the potential for both divine and demonic acts."

"The pursuit of happiness often leads to greater misery than acceptance of fate."

"The mind can justify anything the heart desires."

"The weak are always judged by the strong, yet truth belongs to neither."

"Sin is not in actions but in the intentions that drive them."

"The future is made of the choices we make today, and those choices haunt us forever."

"Children are innocent, yet the world demands they suffer."

"The soul of another is a mystery that cannot be penetrated by force."

"Man needs the irrational, just as much as he needs the rational."

"To be conscious is to suffer, yet consciousness is the ladder by which we climb toward truth."

"Freedom is the most precious gift, but the heaviest burden."

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

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

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

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

"The hardest prison to escape is the one we build for ourselves."

"The greatest act of courage is to admit one's weakness."

"The greatest prison is the prison of one's own mind."