Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.
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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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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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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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I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.
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Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
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Without God all things are permitted.
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Do you know that ages will pass and mankind will proclaim in its wisdom and science that there is no crime and, therefore no sin, but that there are only hungry people. 'Feed them first and then demand virtue of them!' - that is what they will inscribe on their banner which they will raise against you and which will destroy your temple.
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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!
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Every man needs a place to go to.
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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We are all happy if we but knew it.
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
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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.
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
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They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.