Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness. — 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
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 a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. — 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
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
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound… — 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
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. — 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
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. — 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
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders… — 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
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“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
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
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
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
“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
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
