Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The soul is healed by being with children.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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!
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.
A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
If there is no God, then I am God.
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is needed.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
Variant: Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.
There are two sorts of mind: one that matters, and one that doesn't matter.
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 live without Hope is to Cease to live.
For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
