1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent.

Но человек существо легкомысленное и неблаговидное и, может быть, подобно шахматному игроку, любит только один процесс достижения цели, а не самую цель.

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

¡Ah! ¡Lo que está mal es el procedimiento! ¡No es un procedimiento que agrade por lo estético! Pero lo que no acierto a comprender es por qué es más aceptable despachurrar a la gente bombardeando una plaza sitiada. ¡Los escrúpulos estéticos son un primer síntoma de impotencia!

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!

Good God! Can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open … that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, break the lock, steal and tremble; hide, all spattered in the blood … with the axe … Good God, can it be?

It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window