What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Copy Share Image
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Deep thought Copy Share Image
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cleverest Copy Share Image
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Hell Copy Share Image
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fear Copy Share Image
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Despair Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'd hate to talk to anyone, and at other times I'd not only talk to people, but would even take it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Friends Copy Share Image
“And so, since then, I've been preaching. Moreover...I love those who laugh at me even more than the rest. Why, I don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Comedy Copy Share Image
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Esteem Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Civilization Copy Share Image
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ability Copy Share Image
“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Being thankful Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Challenges Copy Share Image
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
“I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Action Copy Share Image
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Advantage Copy Share Image
It is better to go wrong in one's own way than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abstract Copy Share Image
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Action Copy Share Image
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Achievement Copy Share Image
