“What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They were given paradise, they wanted freedom, and stole fire from heaven, though they knew that they would become unhappy.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... to celebrate my first hour of freedom. It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What made them necessarily imagine that what man needs is necessarily a reasonably profitable wanting? Man needs only independent wanting, whatever this… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man’s requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That day must come when men will understand that freedom and daily bread enough to satisfy all are unthinkable and can never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Alas, put no faith in such a bond of union. interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Decide yourself who was right: you or the one who questioned you then? Recall the first question; its meaning, though not literally,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice, however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, we'll be in chains, and there will be no freedom, but then, in our great grief, we will arise once… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
