Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Forgiving, Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.131, Google Publishing

• Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Anxiety

• Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Worship, Prophet

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Deep Thought

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

• It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Race, Effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.439, Bantam Classics

• Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.604, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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