20 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
- It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
- If there is no God, everything is permitted.
- Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
- 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.
- Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
- Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
- 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.
- To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
- Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
- Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
- Realists do not fear the results of their study.
- 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!
- The soul is healed by being with children.
- 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.
- There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
- To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
- 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.
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