The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Cleverest Copy Share Image
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Copy Share Image
“I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Asia Copy Share Image
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Chance Copy Share Image
My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmatic if for some reason these laws and two… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Care 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
“When i look around me, i realize that people don't care, hardly anyone does, and i'm the only one who cannot bear… — 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Engineering Copy Share Image
If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Christ Copy Share Image
“If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
“I was twenty-four, but even then I led the gloomy, disorganized, solitary existence of a recluse. I stayed away from people, avoided… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Authority Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Caprice Copy Share Image
“At home, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling up inside me.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
“If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ability Copy Share Image
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
“I could have done even better, miss, and I'd know a lot more, if it wasn't for my destiny ever since childhood.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Believer Copy Share Image
“Why did you come in to-night with your heads in the air? 'Make way, we are coming! Give us every right and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Believe in god Copy Share Image
“What do you think?" shouted Razumihin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Nonsense Copy Share Image
“If the evil-doing of men moves you to indignation and overwhelming distress, even to a desire for vengeance on the evil-doers, shun… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Righteous man Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Architect Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Deceit Copy Share Image
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Facts Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Candor Copy Share Image
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. — 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
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
