For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fool Copy Share Image
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheism Copy Share Image
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Courage Copy Share Image
“So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?' 'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Absurdism Copy Share Image
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Fear Copy Share Image
It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Despair Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'd hate to talk to anyone, and at other times I'd not only talk to people, but would even take it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Friends Copy Share Image
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abortion Copy Share Image
“These young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices. They… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Education Copy Share Image
Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abuse Copy Share Image
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Age Copy Share Image
Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty 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… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Copy Share Image
“I've been living like this for a long time - about twenty years. I'm forty now. I used to be in the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Civil service Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beggary Copy Share Image
As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ardent Copy Share Image
“My task is to explain to you as quickly as possible my essence, that is, what sort of man I am, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dare to dream Copy Share Image
“And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if… — Fyodor Dostoevsky God Copy Share Image
You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
