The Brothers Karamazov Quotes

“I am not rebelling against my God; I simply ‘don't accept His world.’”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:God

“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.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:heartbeautyfight

“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:heartimportance

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:strengthsufferingweakness

“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:understandingequality

“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:powergreatnessresponsibility

“fools are made for wise men's profit.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wisdomstupidity

“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wisdomaction

“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:realitydreamboredom

“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:religionbelief