The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor DostoevskyEverywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
Fyodor DostoevskyAnd what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoevsky