Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even… — 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
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — 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
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — 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
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the… — 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
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
“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
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
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
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. — 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
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
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
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — 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
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
