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
atheist doe ifs
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
inspirational doe students
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...
heart feelings doe
He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
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.
kindness good-life doe
How good life is when one does something good and just!
spring miracle doe
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
cutting reality doe
Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.
men intelligent doe
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
mad flying devil
I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.
squares years space
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.
love men suffering
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
hands fire cold
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
beautiful stupid men
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
mistake causes ruined
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.