What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — 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
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there… — 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
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all… — 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
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels. — 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
