"And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if God does exist and really created the world, as we well know, he created it according to the pri..."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that it's an idea made up by men? Then, if He doesn't exist, man is the king o..."
"Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and don't you dare breathe a word before us. Pay us every sort of respect, such as no one's ever ..."
"We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him."
"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind."
"He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who ..."
"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
"It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!"
"originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should b..."