“For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I want to be there when every one suddenly understands what it has all been for. All the religions of the world… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Had you accepted that third counsel of the mighty spirit, you would have furnished all that man seeks on earth, that is:… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One who does not believe in God will not believe in God’s people. He who believes in God’s people will see His… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“that whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them. Anyone who is greatly daring is right in their… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“something that happens almost always with women who maintain their clarity of spirit, freshness of impressions, and honest, pure intensity of heart… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There exists no greater or more painful anxiety for a man who has freed himself from all religious bias, than how he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I understand, of course, what an upheaval of the universe it will be when everything in heaven and earth blends in one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And if it is a mystery, then we, too, had the right to preach mystery and to teach them that it is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — 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
