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
gentleman answers
Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
men way facts
There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.
forgiving
Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness
europe russia would-be
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
atheist doe ifs
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
men ideas would-be
And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
gratitude abuse attention
I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.
hero everyday grey
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.
simple neighbor needed
And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.
civilization way degrees
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
people world lasts
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
illness crime
The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!
hymns shame brothers-karamazov
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
libertarian slave
Make us your slaves, but feed us.