“The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why. I love some great deeds done by men, though I’ve long ceased perhaps to have faith in them, yet from old habit one’s heart prizes them.”
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“Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is like my old Inquisitor, who himself ate roots in the desert and raved, overcoming his flesh, in order to make himself free and perfect, but who still loved mankind all his life, and suddenly opened his eyes and he saw that there is no great moral blessedness in achieving perfection of the will only to become convinced, at the same time, that millions of the rest of God's creatures have been set up only for mockery, that they will never be strong enough to manage their freedom, that from such pitiful rebels will never come giants to complete the tower, that it was not for such geese that the great idealist dreamt his dream of harmony.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
― To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science
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