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Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotations
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Realists do not fear the results of their study.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
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The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If the devil doesn’t exist and, therefore, man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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- Dostoyevsky Quotations Continued...
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