To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief…Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism to-day, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from Earth but to set up Heaven on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings;
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Eternal Husband