“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 (1821-1881)
“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 (1821-1881)
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“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 Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“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 (1821-1881)
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“Everything passes, only truth remains.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)