Ideas Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance… Never give a work to the printer before it…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky