“Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I've been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself? If I did not believe in life,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When you are older, you'll understand for yourself the influence of age on convictions.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But is it possible to believe in the devil, if one hasn't the slightest belief in God?' Stavrogin laughed out loud. 'Oh… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...in my opinion miracles will never confound a realist. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Thou wouldst not enslave man by a miracle, and didst crave faith given freely, not based on miracle. Thou didst crave for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At first—long before indeed—he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if Stavrogin believes, he does not believe that he believes. And if he does not believe, he does not believe that he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“proofs are no help to believing, especially material proofs. Thomas believed, not because he saw Christ risen, but because he wanted to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And yet everyone goes toward one and the same thing, at least everyone strives for one and the same thing, from the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Alas, put no faith in such a bond of union. interpreting freedom as the multiplication and rapid satisfaction of desires, men distort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It ended by my almost believing (perhaps actually believing) that this was perhaps my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief—all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man... that it’s better to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I will tell you that I am a child of this century, a child of disbelief and doubt. I am that today… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know I've been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn't believe in life, if I lost faith in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
