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
“Certainly we shall rise, certainly we shall see and gladly, joyfully tell one another all that has been.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Now answer me, sincerely, honestly, who lives past forty? I'll tell you who does: fools and scoundrels.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fools Copy Share Image
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Habits Copy Share Image
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bliss Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
“If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. The Brothers Karamazov Mitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Chaos Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Guilty Copy Share Image
“...poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know that drunkenness too is not a virtue and that's even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles," he thought, with an odd smile. "Hm …… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“ in many strong people there seems to be a sort of natural need--to find someone or something to bow down to ” — fyodor dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Thou didst not come down from the Cross when they shouted to Thee, mocking and reviling Thee, "Come down from the Cross… — fyodor dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It often only seems that there are no points in common, when there really are a lot ... it comes from people's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Laziness Copy Share Image
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Indignant 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
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bread Copy Share Image
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Heart 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 Choice Copy Share Image
“The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Brain Copy Share Image
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Brother Copy Share Image
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? — Fyodor Dostoevsky History Copy Share Image
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Civilization Copy Share Image
“... in St. Petersburg, the most abstract and intentional city on the entire globe. (Cities and be intentional or unintentional.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Moscow Copy Share Image
“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Entire life Copy Share Image
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Art Copy Share Image