Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky Famous Quotes & Sayings
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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
When ... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Of course I shall go astray often ... for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
What is hell? ... The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.