Stavrogin's Confession & the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner Quotes

“On the contrary, complete atheism is more respectable than worldly indifference,” Tikhon answered, with visible gaiety and good-nature.

“Oho, that’s how you get round it!”

“A complete atheist stands on the last rung but one before absolute faith (he may or may not step higher), but an indifferent man has no longer any faith at all, nothing but an ugly fear, and that only on rare occasions, if he is a sentimental man.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Stavrogin's Confession & the Plan of the Life of a Great Sinner