# Quote — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

> The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

- Author: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md)
- Book: [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/the-stupider-one

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> If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/if-there-is-no-immortality.md)

> ‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/no-one-but.md)

> Faith is not in power but in truth.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/faith-is-not.md)