The Brothers Karamazov

"To punish a criminal is to acknowledge his freedom."

"The cruel heart is incapable of experiencing beauty."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

"Freedom without love is the greatest slavery."

"Money is the root of all earthly troubles."

"The timid heart is the greatest sufferer."

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

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

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

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

"Ignorance is the bliss of cowardice."

"I want to embrace life before it passes me by."

"We have all become atheists unconsciously."

"Youth is always right and age is always wrong."

"I believe the unconscious dreams of every Russian are about beauty and justice."

"Rebellion and freedom are the highest pursuits of mankind."

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

"I dream of understanding at last some phenomenon of life."

"The absolute is unattainable, but we must strive for it."

"I am afraid I shall have to own up to being a riddle."

"Do not torment me by asking me to justify myself."

"I am tormented by my love of humanity."

"The world will be saved by beauty."

"I want to forgive everyone and for everything to forgive me."

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

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."

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

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

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

"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's one's enemies I find absolutely impossible to love."