Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Intelligent #Men #Intelligence

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Love #Suffering #Hell

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Hands #Cowardice

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Life Changing

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Inspirational #Pain #Heart

“My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, it's absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it. People have always done so.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#People #Done #Truth Is

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Fashion #Hipster #Conceited

“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Believe #Men #Ungrateful

“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Children #Stupid #Dirty

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Escaping #Way #Prison

“To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Progress #Trying

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Literature #Months

“Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Doors #Window

“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Love #Animal #World

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Positive #Happiness #Happy

“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Life #Hate #Love Is

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Thinking #Devil

“Beauty would save the world.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Deep Thought #World #Save The World

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Friendship #True Love #Love You

“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Simple #People #Wicked

“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Criminals #Citizens #Prison

“The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Two #Perspective #Formulas

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Healing #Healed #Burn Out

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Dream #Fall #Autumn

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Lying

“Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Meaningful #Work #Men

“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Animal #Men #People

“Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Action #Forget #Reason

“I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Jesus #Believe #Perfect

“Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.”
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Men #Trouble