Fyodor dostoyevsky Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image ““Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fyodor dostoyevsky
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer. — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
“reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. “I recognize myself” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I remember reading Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' in my grandmother's Moscow apartment and feeling this call to be a better person. — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on. But damned… — Lindqvist John Ajvide Copy Share Image
Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for freedom. Your search has fatigued you and made you too wakeful. You long for the open heights, your soul thirsts for the stars. But your bad instincts too thirst for freedom. Your fierce dogs long for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weak -and not only about us. Life - that is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others, though you wrote volumes about it and spent thirty-five years in explaining your idea; something will always be left that will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get bedazzled with the cornucopia of stories and poetry that lay snuggled in the plethora of shelves at display. You wouldn't believe it dear readers that I heard a real symphony in my ears at that very moment of… — Avijeet Das Copy Share
“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy person at… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness of the process of achievement alone, that is to say, in life itself, and not essentially in the goal, which, of course, is bound to be nothing other than two times two is four--that is, a formula; and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image