1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that – Count Leo Tolstoy.

We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amusement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

A sick man's dreams are often extraordinarily distinct and vivid and extremely life-like.

The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because they are ordinary. Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.