Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Every man needs a place to go to.
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.
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What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?
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We are all happy if we but knew it.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself.
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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
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I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.
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God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
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If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
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Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
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Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.