Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Believe Quotes

Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

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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 caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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One can fall in love and still hate.

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If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

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Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

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We are all happy if we but knew it.

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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

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The world will be saved by beauty.

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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

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When reason fails, the devil helps!

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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

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There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

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