Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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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.
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Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
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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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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
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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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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
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If the person laughs well, they are a good person.
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Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.
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Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!
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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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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!
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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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Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
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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.
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Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?
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Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.
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Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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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.