Resurrection from the Underground Quotes

“The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

“It is the Other whom one must love as oneself if one does not desire to idolize and hate the Other in the depths of the underground.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

“Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

“The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.”
― René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky