In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I… — 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
