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
Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Brother Copy Share Image
“Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands… — 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 Angel 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
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And so, since then, I've been preaching. Moreover...I love those who laugh at me even more than the rest. Why, I don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Comedy Copy Share Image
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Gambling Copy Share Image
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Esteem Copy Share Image
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Belief Copy Share Image
“Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Depression Copy Share Image
“What does a decent chap talk about with the greatest possible pleasure? Answer: about himself.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity… — 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 Insightful Copy Share Image
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Honor Copy Share Image
“Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Christ Copy Share Image
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know, my dear Sir, the position of a man who has nowhere to go, and yet has to go somewhere?” — 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
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Childhood Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky History Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bears Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Art Copy Share Image
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Humans Copy Share Image
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Courage Copy Share Image
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Accumulating 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
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Drag mi je poneki čovjek kojeg gdjekad, zamisli, i ne znaš zašto voliš, drag mi je poneki ljudski pothvat u koji si… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor — Fyodor Dostoevsky Freedom Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Care Copy Share Image