If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — 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
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — 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
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath… — 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
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — 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
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. — 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
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all? — 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
