Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
1821 – 1881
Russian novelist, author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
55 quotesAbout Fyodor Dostoevsky on Wikipedia
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.”
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”
“Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.”
“The formula "two plus two equals five" is not without its attractions.”
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it—that is what you must do.”
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.”
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
“Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.”
“A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”
“To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things!”
“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything.”
“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself.”
