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
waiting gumption ifs
Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.
atheist doe ifs
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
happy-love ifs
We are all happy if we but knew it.
faults alive ifs
If he's alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn't understand that
tongue there-is-no-god ifs
Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.
laziness results ifs
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
devil reason ifs
If not reason, then the devil.
atheist existentialism ifs
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
god-is-dead ifs
If God is dead, everything is allowed.
there-is-no-god ifs
If there is no God, then I am God.
virtue immortality ifs
There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
earth rational ifs
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
sun brothers-karamazov ifs
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
my-friends ifs
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.