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
god-is-dead ifs
If God is dead, everything is allowed.
tea selfishness world
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
people firsts laziness
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
christian jesus heart
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
thinking tiny deeds
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
happiness laughter lying
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
perfection understanding may
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
men humanity deep-thought
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
hatred feelings movement
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .
respect self-esteem want
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.
men suffering cost
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
happiness moments bliss
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
there-is-no-god ifs
If there is no God, then I am God.
men trouble
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.