When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it.

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.