“Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is better to go wrong in one's own way than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They did not strive to gain knowledge of life as we strive to understand it, because their lives were full. But their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Even now, so many years later, all this is somehow a very evil memory. I have many evil memories now, but ...… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering. — 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
