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Dostoevsky claimed that if God didn't exist, everything would be permitted.
Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov said: 'If God did not exist, everything would be permitted.' Sartre agreed.
The movie stands on its head the Dostoyevskian dictum "If God does not exist, everything is permitted".
Even at the best hotels, the notion of courses didn't exist: everything was set out at once, squab compote jostling with cream puffs.
While women like this must exist (everything exists), it's unlikely that, these days, there are great hordes of them willing to resort to malevolent subterfuge to have children with men who are anything from indifferent, cold and uninvolved to angry, insulting and accusatory.
He will be defended by his half-brothers: Ivan, the freethinking cynic who declared that "when god does not exist, everything is permitted" and debates the devil at night in his room at night; and kind, pure-hearted Alyosha, a novice in a monastery.
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When no human consciousness existed, everything that did exist, including this dying horseshoe crab, had its own story and made its own sense.
Parfit is an atheist, but when it comes to moral truth he believes what Ivan Karamazov believed about God: if it does not exist, then everything is permitted.
"It was not a bad result, opportunities still exist and everything is still possible, but I didn't understand some of the referee's decisions.
Is it true, as Ivan Karimazov said, that "If God does not exist, then everything is permitted?" Fundamentalists, from Pennsylvania avenue to Pakistan, say yes.
Rules exist from everything regarding privacy to curtailing bullying.
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