The Brothers Karamazov

"I would rather be unhappy and know the truth than be happy in ignorance."

"The gift of freedom is the greatest gift, and yet it is the most terrible."

"Youth is not responsible for the old world—let the old world look after itself."

"Miracles are quite different from what I think they are in my dreams."

"Rebellion and revolution are the fruit of exhaustion and darkness."

"For the moment I embrace this world as it is, and I believe it good."

"Consciousness, even if it caused suffering, is preferable to unconscious happiness."

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

"The spiritual power of the church should be completely separated from the temporal power."

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

"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."

"There is no greater power than the power of love."

"The human soul craves mystery; it cannot be satisfied with mere facts."

"To love one person means to see all of humanity through that person."

"Education is the most dangerous thing."

"I am not a man of faith; I am a man of questions."

"My heart aches because I love too much."

"People blame their circumstances, but I do not believe in circumstances."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"Money is a kind of language."

"I think the highest and boldest thing is to love life in all its aspects."

"Reason alone is insufficient to determine the meaning of life."

"To love humanity as it is now is impossible. Only to love it as one desires it to be."

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

"Consciousness is a disease."

"Act always as if the maxim of your action were to become a universal law."

"I would like to be of use, to be remembered with a kind word."

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

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