Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
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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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It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
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My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.
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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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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.
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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
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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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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.
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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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For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
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I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
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Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with.
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Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
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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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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.
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But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.