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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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“ Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man
who lies to himself and listens to his own
lie comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or
around him, and so loses all respect for
himself and for others. And having no
respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception,
truth
Like · 10640
“ Pain and suffering are always inevitable
for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
The really great men must, I think, have
great sadness on earth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Like · 7988
“ To go wrong in one's own way is better
than to go right in someone else's.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tags: independent-thought, self-
determination, self-expression
Like · 5938
“ What is hell? I maintain that it is the
suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: hell, love, suffering
Like · 5103
“ I say let the world go to hell, but I should
always have my tea.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness,
tea
Like · 3269
“ Man only likes to count his troubles; he
doesn't calculate his happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground,
White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,
and Selections from The House of the Dead
Tags: happiness, man, trouble
Like · 2975
“ I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my
amazement that the more I love
mankind as a whole, the less I love man
in particular.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: humanity, individuals, love, mankind
Like · 2655
“ The soul is healed by being with
children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: children, healing, humility, inspiration,
love, openness, society
Like · 2599
“ 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.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Like · 2580
“ It takes something more than
intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tags: intelligence, intelligent-action
Like · 2520
“ The mystery of human existence lies not
in just staying alive, but in finding
something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: goals-in-life, purpose-of-life
Like · 2435
“ People speak sometimes about the
"bestial" cruelty of man, but that is
terribly unjust and offensive to beasts,
no animal could ever be so cruel as a
man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tags: animals, cruelty, mankind
Like · 2435
“ But how could you live and have no story
to tell?
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
Tags: life, story
Like · 2287
“ Talking nonsense is the sole privilege
mankind possesses over the other
organisms. It's by talking nonsense that
one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense,
therefore I'm human
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground,
White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,
and Selections from The House of the Dead
Like · 2249
“ Taking a new step, uttering a new word,
is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Tags: change, fear-of-change
Like · 2001
“ The world says: "You have needs --
satisfy them. You have as much right as
the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to
satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your
needs and demand more." This is the
worldly doctrine of today. And they
believe that this is freedom. The result
for the rich is isolation and suicide, for
the poor, envy and murder.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism,
needs, selfishness, vice
Like · 1704
“ Much unhappiness has come into the
world because of bewilderment and
things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: communication, confusion
Like · 1558
“ I am a dreamer. I know so little of real
life that I just can't help re-living such
moments as these in my dreams, for
such moments are something I have very
rarely experienced. I am going to dream
about you the whole night, the whole
week, the whole year. I feel I know you
so well that I couldn't have known you
better if we'd been friends for twenty
years. You won't fail me, will you? Only
two minutes, and you've made me happy
forever. Yes, happy. Who knows,
perhaps you've reconciled me with
myself, resolved all my doubts.
When I woke up it seemed to me that
some snatch of a tune I had known for a
long time, I had heard somewhere before
but had forgotten, a melody of great
sweetness, was coming back to me now.
It seemed to me that it had been trying
to emerge from my soul all my life, and
only now-
If and when you fall in love, may you be
happy with her. I don't need to wish her
anything, for she'll be happy with you.
May your sky always be clear, may your
dear smile always be bright and happy,
and may you be for ever blessed for that
moment of bliss and happiness which
you gave to another lonely and grateful
heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for
the whole of one's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
Like · 1554
“ To love someone means to see them as
God intended them.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tags: love
Like · 1487
“ Nothing in this world is harder than
speaking the truth, nothing easier than
flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: honesty, integerity
Like · 1472
“ I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see
the sun, I know that it exists. And to
know that the sun is there - that is living.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Like · 1414
“ Man is a mystery. It needs to be
unravelled, and if you spend your whole
life unravelling it, don't say that you've
wasted time. I am studying that mystery
because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: life, philosophy, wisdom
Like · 1344
“ Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to
break something from time to time.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: destruction
Like · 1304
“ The awful thing is that beauty is
mysterious as well as terrible. God and
the devil are fighting there and the
battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Like · 1295
“ Man is sometimes extraordinarily,
passionately, in love with suffering...
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like · 1246
“ Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
Tags: beauty
Like · 1178
“ If you wish to glimpse inside a human
soul and get to know a man, don't bother
analyzing his ways of being silent, of
talking, of weeping, of seeing how much
he is moved by noble ideas; you will get
better results if you just watch him
laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tags: character, goodness, laughter
Like · 1145
“ It is not the brains that matter most, but
that which guides them — the character,
the heart, generous qualities, progressive
ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like · 1079
“ You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Like · 1076
“ Don’t let us forget that the causes of
human actions are usually immeasurably
more complex and varied than our
subsequent explanations of them.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
Tags: humanity
Like · 1073
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