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Did Dostoevsky ever write, "If God does not exist, everything is permitted."?
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"Dostoyevsky once wrote: 'If God does not exist, everything is permissible.' This is the starting point of existentialism." -- Jean-Paul Sartre : philosophy
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"Dostoyevsky once wrote: 'If God does not exist, everything is permissible.' This is the starting point of existentialism." -- Jean-Paul Sartre : philosophy
This is the starting point of existentialism."
"Dostoyevsky once wrote: 'If God does not exist, everything is permissible.' This is the starting point of existentialism." -- Jean-Paul Sartre : philosophy
"Dostoyevsky once wrote: 'If God does not exist, everything is permissible.'
suite101.com
If God Does not Exist, Everything is Permitted
It is a famous passage from The Brothers Karamazov by the great Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
infidels.org
Without God, What Grounds Right and Wrong?
One of the best-known quote from the works of Dostoevsky is, "If God does not exist, everything is permitted."
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes
“If God does not exist, then everything is permitted”
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Dostoyevsky
"If God does not exist, everything is permitted." .
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Propagated Misattribution about Dostoevsky « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook
Possibly the best-known quote from the works of Dostoevsky is from The Brothers Karamazov: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "If God does not exist, then everything is permitted" | Aforismi e frasi in inglese
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Without God, What Grounds Right and Wrong?
But, as Cortesi explains, though this "sound-bite sentence" has been propogated widely in religious debate, Dostoevsky in fact never wrote it.
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It
Dostoevsky never wrote it!**
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It
Nor does it appear in any of the other four Dostoevsky novels whose complete English texts are available online.
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It - Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism ...
Nor does it appear in any of the other four Dostoevsky novels whose complete English texts are available online.
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It - Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism ...
The sentence does not appear, nor anything close to it.
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It
The sentence does not appear, nor anything close to it.
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It - Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism ...
Dostoevsky never wrote it!
Dostoevsky Didn't Say It - Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism ...
The fact that a nonexistent text can be widely attributed to a famous author reveals the limitations of pre-computer scholarship.
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Dostoevsky never wrote it!
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Propagated Misattribution about Dostoevsky « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook
Nor does it appear in any of the other four Dostoevsky novels whose complete English texts are available online.
Propagated Misattribution about Dostoevsky « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook
The fact that a nonexistent text can be widely attributed to a famous author reveals the limitations of pre-computer scholarship.
Propagated Misattribution about Dostoevsky « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook
The sentence does not appear, nor anything close to it.
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God Exist Everything Permitted | The Armchair Antichrist
Dostoyevsky simply did not make this quote.
God Exist Everything Permitted | The Armchair Antichrist
To recap, this sentence or anything close to it does not appear in The Brothers Karamazov or four other famous Dostoyevsky novels for that matter.