Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about
spring miracle doe
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
world
I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
fog cities what-if
What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.
two giving pieces
Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
cooking firsts hares
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
talking privilege nonsense
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human
firsts chance stranger
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
pain fear-of-death
God is the pain of the fear of death
true-friend heart compassion
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.
world absurdity happens
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
world want overcoming
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
fighting conflict feels
The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
beautiful awful sides
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
loss resolution resolve
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.