Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.
For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.
