“Your heart is better than your head.” (p. 160)
“…I shall not weep from despair, but simply because I shall be happy in my tears, I shall steep my soul in emotion. I love the sticky leaves in the spring, the blue sky–that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with ones insides, with one’s stomach. One loves the first strength of one’s youth.” (p. 274)
“For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living….” (p. 302)
“But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom, if at the same time one gains the conviction that millions of God’s creatures have been created as a mockery, that they will never be capable of using their freedom, that these poor rebels can never turn into giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony.” (p. 310)
“…don’t rummage in my soul; … but only ask me about facts and what matters, and I will satisfy you at once.” (p. 564)
“…you are angry, therefore you are wrong….” (p. 910)
See also:
pp. 292-312 — Grand Inquisitor
pp. 283-291 — Injustice
Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov. New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Trans. Constance Garnett.