Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
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.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid.
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.
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
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.
Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
