If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Belief Copy Share Image
“But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Miracles Copy Share Image
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Love thy neighbor Copy Share Image
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Certainly we shall rise, certainly we shall see and gladly, joyfully tell one another all that has been.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Humans Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bliss Copy Share Image
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“ in many strong people there seems to be a sort of natural need--to find someone or something to bow down to ” — fyodor dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fools Copy Share Image
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Habits Copy Share Image
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bread Copy Share Image
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Heart Copy Share Image
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
“It often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are a lot ... it comes from people's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Laziness Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the Cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the Cross… — fyodor dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Indignant Copy Share Image
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Battlefield Copy Share Image
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“…a person's true security consists not in his own persinal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of mankind.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Going away Copy Share Image
“Would you believe, when you look at him, dear Nastenka, that indeed he has never known her whom he loves so in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Daydreams Copy Share Image
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Chaos Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Blue Copy Share Image