Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
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Every man needs a place to go to.
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I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.
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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!
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But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
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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.
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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
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He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
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But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and having an idea is difficult!
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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
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Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.
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When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.
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If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?