71 result(s) for Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes.
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
"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."
"The greatest fool is the man who thinks he is not one."
"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
"Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula."
"Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and untroubled joy."
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself."
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"Loving much is great, but loving well is better."
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys."
"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 men."
"The story is nothing. The story could not be worse. But I simply must finish it, whether I want to do it or not."
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."
"You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
"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."
"Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it."
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
"Do you know that people are the most distressed, not by what is bad, but by what is good and could be better?"
"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison."
"There's no such thing as lack of faith. We all have faith in something. The question is, what do we place our faith in?"
"A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him."
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"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it... one must have the courage to dare."
"Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."
"Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light. 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."
"To live without hope is to cease to live."
"There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things."
"Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness."
"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."
"Realists do not fear the results of their study."
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
"Without God, everything is permitted."
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"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
"The best thing is to do nothing, the worst is to reach a false decision."
"Taking a woman's heart by storm is what truly chivalrous men did."
"The greatest teacher is experience and not through intellectual method."
"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."
"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."
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
"To love someone means to see him as God intended him."
"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough-going illness."
"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live."
"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
"It's not a matter of IQ. It's a matter of discipline when it comes to studying. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
"It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."
"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back."
"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
"The greatest misfortune is not to know contentment."
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
"There is nothing more alluring, and yet more bewildering, than the way in which a woman may torment the fancy of a man."
"Beauty will save the world."
"The soul is healed by being with children."
"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."
"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."
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars."
"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
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