How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
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
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
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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 Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — 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
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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 saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
