The Brothers Karamazov

"Money is printed freedom"

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

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

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

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

"Man desires harmony; but he also desires chaos."

"To be alive is to be a slave to something or someone."

"The greatest happiness is not the satisfaction of the passions, but their transcendence."

"The heart of another is a dark forest."

"There is no greater torment than the consciousness of wrongdoing."

"A man may love a thing that is not his."

"The more you love humanity in general, the less you love individual human beings."

"I could not even be happy in knowing that torment should cease for others."

"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it admits of being easily got rid of."

"I maintain that suffering is not always a source of virtue; sometimes it creates nothing but bitterness."

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

"If there is no God, everything is lawful. But is everything really lawful?"

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

"One can love one's neighbor in the abstract, or even at a distance, but at close quarters it is almost impossible."

"People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust to beasts."

"The worst thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible."

"For every one of us it is true that we came into the world without our consent and leave it against our will."

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

"I love humanity, but I am amazed at myself: I could never love my neighbors, only the distant ones."

"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 heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of"

"Money is coined liberty"

"Truth is higher than happiness"

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for by the fact that I have lived"