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
believe air punishment
I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
live-life punishment may
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
mistake punishment suffering
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
punishment given dare
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
dream crime-books punishment
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
real lying punishment
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
real heart punishment
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
stupid punishment asking
You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
truth honesty punishment
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
independent punishment way
To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.
punishment humanity suffering
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
punishment ideas numbers
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
punishment murder crime
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
life-changing intelligence crime-and-punishment
It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.