1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

You can’t overleap nature with logic alone! Logic will presuppose 3 cases, when there are a million of them! Cut away the whole million, and reduce everything to the one question of comfort! The easiest solution to the problem! Enticingly clear, and there’s no need to think! Above all, there’s no need to think! The whole of life’s mystery can fit on two printed pages!

Your slave and enemy,D.Karamazov

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering.

Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.

I'm a master of speaking silently—all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

An offended moral and, even worse, esthetic feeling often produces a most unappeasable resentment.