I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. — 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
