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
ask bear cannot cling create deed deeds ends following free god great handed heretic hope hundred man men might miracle miracles moments nature recorded reject rejects remote seeks spiritual thou though thy utmost verdict worship
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.
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.