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
mistake men errors
Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.
mysterious ache
You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.
kindness good-life doe
How good life is when one does something good and just!
deep-thought brothers-karamazov ifs
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
deep-thought world save-the-world
Beauty would save the world.
being-happy gratitude men
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
kindness compassion law
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
there-is-no-god ifs
If there is no God, then I am God.
god-is-dead ifs
If God is dead, everything is allowed.
deep-thought life-is
Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
deep-thought shelter earth
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
inability-to-love inability hell
Hell is the inability to love.
plenty my-time my-own
Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
dry-up continuation-of-life literature
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.