What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile creatures, you in the image of the beast and you who bear his mark. All the same, you come too!' And the wise and prudent will say, 'Lord, why are you welcoming them? And he will say, 'O wise and prudent, I am welcoming them because not one of them has ever judged himself worthy. And he will stretch out his arms to us, and we shall fall at his feet, and burst into sobs, and then we shall understand everything, everything! Lord, your kingdom come!

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?