Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness Copy Share Image
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Men Copy Share Image
“Heed not the deceitful, shallow crowds And cast aside your doubts ...” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Doubts Copy Share Image
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anguish Copy Share Image
Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Angel Copy Share Image
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abstract Copy Share Image
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Consciousness Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Consciousness Copy Share Image
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Humor Copy Share Image
They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and punishment Copy Share Image
“And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Destiny Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ashamed Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Certainty Copy Share Image
“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
“Some sleepers have intelligent faces even in sleep, while other faces, even intelligent ones, become very stupid in sleep and therefore ridiculous.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Change for the better Copy Share Image
Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
“Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Caring Copy Share Image
It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cleanliness Copy Share Image
... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky God Copy Share Image