The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

I'm drunk but truthful.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.