Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — 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
