A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fool Copy Share Image
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheism Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness Copy Share Image
... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Greatness Copy Share Image
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Comedy Copy Share Image
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheism Copy Share Image
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abandonment Copy Share Image
“You can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. There's always a little corner… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Husband and wife Copy Share Image
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Clarity Copy Share Image
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Earth Copy Share Image
“Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Believe in god Copy Share Image
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance… Never give a work to the printer before it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Caring Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Age Copy Share Image
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abuse Copy Share Image
“Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ...… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
“After all, it is sometimes rather enjoyable to feel insulted, is it not? For the person knows that no one has insulted… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Hope and faith Copy Share Image
“These, gentlemen, are my rules: if I don't succeed, I keep trying; if I do succeed, I keep quiet; and in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Jam njeri i semure... Jam edhe tip keqdashesi. Nuk bej pjese, nderkohe, ne simpatiket. Me duket se vuaj nga melçia, ndonese vete… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
“What is to be done with the millions of facts that bear witness that men, consciously, that is fully understanding their real… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Generosity Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheism Copy Share Image