1,167 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

El cabo de la vela estaba a punto de consumirse en el torcido candelero y expandía una luz mortecina por aquella mísera habitación donde un asesino y una prostituta se habían unido para leer el Libro Eterno.

He was one of that countless and multifarious legion of vulgar persons, sickly abortions and half-educated petty tyrants who like a flash attach themselves to the current ideas that are most fashionable in order, again like a flash,to vulgarize them, caricaturing the very cause they seek to serve, sometimes with great genuineness.

Los lamentos no son sino el deseo de abrir aún más la herida.

Mi opinión es que si el diablo no existe, si ha sido creado por el hombre, éste lo ha hecho a su imagen y semejanza.

There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to as soon as possible.

Had you accepted that third counsel of the mighty spirit, you would have furnished all that man seeks on earth, that is: someone to bow down to, someone to take over his conscience, and a means for uniting everyone at last into a common, concordant, and incontestable anthill - for the need for universal union is the third and last torment of men.

There is nothing more seductive for man than the freedom of his conscience, but there is nothing more tormenting either.

But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles. And since man cannot bear to be left without miracles, he will go and create new miracles for himself, his own miracles this time, and will bow down to the miracles of quacks, or women's magic, though he be rebellious, heretical, and godless a hundred times over.

Есть простодушие, которое доверяется всем и каждому, не подозревая насмешки. Такие люди всегда ограниченны, ибо готовы выложить из сердца все самое драгоценное пред первым встречным