What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and punishment Copy Share Image
If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Giving Copy Share Image
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Choice Copy Share Image
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
“Eshte e mire letersia, Varenjka, shume e mire eshte. U binda diten e trete te vizitave. Gje me peshe. Ua forcon zemren… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian 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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Accuracy Copy Share Image
It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Although Pulcheria Alexandrovna was forty-three, she still showed traces of her former beauty and seemed much younger than her years. This is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their… — 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 Awareness Copy Share Image
To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — 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
“You know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret - nothing,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Deception Copy Share Image
“And meanwhile, even in spite of all my desire, I could never imagine to myself that there is no future life and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Future life Copy Share Image
“Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony.… — 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 Action Copy Share Image
“But you are a great sinner, that's true," he added almost solemnly, and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dreams 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
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ethics-and-moral-philosophy Copy Share Image
