The Brothers Karamazov; A Doll’s House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder
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“Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering” (Page 138)
“It is the pride of a child and a schoolboy. They are little children rioting and barring out the teacher” (Page 139)
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. In my dreams,’” (Page 28)
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian mind of man, that in the world’s finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood they’ve shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened with men—but though all that may come to pass, I don’t accept it.” (Page 127)
“The Kingdom of Heaven, of course, is not of this world, but in Heaven: but it is only entered through the Church which has been founded and established upon earth. And so a frivolous play upon words in such a connection is unpardonable and improper. The Church is, in truth, a kingdom and ordained to rule, and in the end must undoubtedly become the kingdom ruling over all the earth. For that we have the divine promise.’” (Page 31)
- Title: The Brothers Karamazov; A Doll’s House; The Wild Duck; Hedda Gabler; The Master Builder
- Authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henrik Ibsen
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 52
- Publishers: Encyclopedia Britannica, Robert P. Gwinn
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Russian literature
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW52
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:47Z