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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Paper, they say, does not blush, but I assure you it's not true and that it's blushing just as I am now, all over.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. But a man always talks of his own ache.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Brothers, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labour. For we must love not only occasionally, for a moment, but for ever. Everyone can love occasionally, even the wicked can.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Faith is not in power but in truth.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.
The Brothers Karamazov (1879)