“There’s nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Candor Copy Share Image
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Facts Copy Share Image
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Deceit Copy Share Image
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Asia Copy Share Image
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Absurdism Copy Share Image
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Courage Copy Share Image
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Approach Copy Share Image
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cities Copy Share Image
We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Conception Copy Share Image
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Effort Copy Share Image
“But this I can say for certain: though I did that cruel thing purposely, it was not an impulse from the heart,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cruelty Copy Share Image
“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't that true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bad habit Copy Share Image
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for later years than some good memory, especially a menory connected… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Advice Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bondage Copy Share Image
“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ashamed Copy Share Image
“To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief...Faith does… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Faith Copy Share Image
“I am trying to explain as quickly as possible my essential nature, that is, what manner of man I am, what I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dare to dream Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
“...I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true, prince, that you once declared that "beauty would save the world"? Great Heaven! The prince says that beauty saves… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
“Se une jo vetem nuk isha nopran e nurzi, por as i lig e as keqdashes nuk isha, ama edhe ndonje hiç… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Blind Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dignity Copy Share Image
“Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Brother Copy Share Image
