Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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...что слишком сознавать - это болезнь, настоящая, полная болезнь.
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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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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.
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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
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I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
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With love one can live even without happiness.
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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?
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If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
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Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
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I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.
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How good life is when one does something good and just!
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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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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
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One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.
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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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...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.
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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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Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!