“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible.”

“Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.”

“They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad." This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.”

“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced Christians, both spoke so much of love, and su...”

“Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is ...”

“If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin wouldve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.”

“Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.”

“to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”

“If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.”

“If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.”

“The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.”

“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.”

“He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness”