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| And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man. | | God | |
| Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. | | Uncategorized | |
| I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too | | Uncategorized | |
| I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born | | Freedom; Gifts | |
| If God does not exist, then everything is permitted | | God | |
| If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness | | Uncategorized | |
| If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness | | Devil; Mankind | |
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| If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. | | Self-respect | |
| In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us | | Uncategorized | |
| Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? | | Uncategorized | |
| It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. | | Uncategorized | |
| It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half | | Uncategorized | |
| It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket. | | Uncategorized | |
| Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth | | Love | |
| Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled | | Animals | |
| Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others | | Uncategorized | |
| Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic | | Logic; Mankind; Truth | |
