... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Greatness Copy Share Image
And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness Copy Share Image
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Absurd Copy Share Image
If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness;… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Effort Copy Share Image
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Existence Copy Share Image
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Caring Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance… Never give a work to the printer before it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Earth Copy Share Image
“Of the eternal questions, nothing else: is there a God, is there immortality? And those who do not believe in God will… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Believe in god Copy Share Image
“I have considered myself cleverer than any of the people surrounding me, and sometimes, would you belive it, have been positively ashamed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ashamed Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bondage Copy Share Image
“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Contemplation Copy Share Image
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Generosity Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheism Copy Share Image
“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Adventure Copy Share Image
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dreamer Copy Share Image
“These, gentlemen, are my rules: if I don't succeed, I keep trying; if I do succeed, I keep quiet; and in any… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
