749 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ...

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.