1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

إنني أحب الانسانية , غير أن هناك شيئا في نفسي يدهشني : كلما ازداد حبي للانسانية جملة واحدة , نقص حبي للبشر افرادا , اي أشخاصا لهم حياتهم الخاصة

حتى حين يحبون, فكأنهم يكرهون

Without God, all things are permissible.

And indeed man has invented God. And the strange thing, the wonderful thing, is not that God really does exist, but that an idea like that - the idea of God's necessity - could find its way into the head of a savage and vicious animal such as man, so sacred is it, that idea, so touching, so exceedingly wise and so greatly to his honour.

So it is that when we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused...

For a hundred versts around there was perhaps not a single person, beginning with himself, who bore even the remotest resemblance to a future member of ‘mankind’s universal social republic and harmony’.

If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets –secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one’s closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one’s own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That’s why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.

Nothing in the world is harder than candour, and nothing is easier than flattery.

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.