The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course.

And man has actually invented God. And what’s strange, what would be marvellous, 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.

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship