Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
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Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.
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Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
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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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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
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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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Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ.
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To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.
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Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
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It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.