Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

God knows what is in me in place of me.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If not reason, then the devil.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Who doesn't desire his fathers death?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Make us your slaves, but feed us.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

...chance may do anything.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

“You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Right attitudes produces right action

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Be the sun and all will see you.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Beauty would save the world.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky