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
men sufficient
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
thinking men sorrow
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
men secret purpose
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
men civilization deep-thought
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
honesty integrity character
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
world saved
The world will be saved by beauty.
positive happiness happy
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
heart glowing joy
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.
nature freedom envy
By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.
men quality world
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.
horse rabbits hundred
From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.
love religious nature
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
healing left
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
men worship accepting
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.