Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Quotes

• “Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coar...”
• “Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my sup...”
• “For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, ...”
• “Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot...”
• “Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then a...”
• “But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, a...”
• “Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exc...”
• “I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in par...”
• “Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on ea...”
• “For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.”
• “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
• “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”