Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
fall love-you farewell
For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!
mother heart widows
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
return tickets brothers-karamazov
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
thinking dare
I utter what you would not dare think
soul reason humiliate
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
men humans human-society
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor
forgiving world brothers-karamazov
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
two enemy
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
ideas giving soul
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.
children father enemy
Let us first fulfill Christ's injunction ourselves and only then venture to expect it of our children. Otherwise we are not fathers, but enemies of our children, and they are not our children, but our enemies, and we have made them our enemies ourselves.
brother lying firsts
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.
heart mind consciousness
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness
love children heart
You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.
fear people steps
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.