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
beast humans human-beings
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
numbers wealth can-do
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
citizens criminals prison
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
intelligent people well-known
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
hares
Catch several hares and you won't catch one.
laziness results ifs
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.
spy slavery prison
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.
mistake punishment suffering
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
falling-in-love sorry eye
And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for you didn't even have time to fall in love...
hymns shame brothers-karamazov
And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
mistake making-mistakes doe
Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.
live-life mean years
The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!
longing hysterical reason
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
punishment given dare
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.