In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good. — 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
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being… — 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
