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
numbers wealth can-do
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
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.
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.
all-things without-god
Without God all things are permitted.
gentleman answers
Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.
honesty integrity character
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
nice intelligent ideas
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.
despotism ends unlimited
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
never-forget complicated motive
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.
my-friends ifs
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.