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 long deep-thought
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
lying deep-thought achieve
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
hope deep-thought hoping-for-the-best
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
fear deep-thought study
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
deep-thought life-is
Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
men humanity deep-thought
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
deep-thought shelter earth
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
deep-thought chaos destruction
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
men laughing deep-thought
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
deep-thought world save-the-world
Beauty would save the world.
men deep-thought he-man
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
workout new-relationship deep-thought
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
deep-thought brothers-karamazov ifs
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
men civilization deep-thought
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.