Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 19

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• There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Light, Ideas, Facts

  "Complete Collected Works, Vol. 9". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1895.

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• Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tongue, There Is No God, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.562, 谷月社

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• Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Engineering

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• To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Murder, Crime

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868 - 1869.

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• Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Laziness, Firsts

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• If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  America, Laughing, Noses

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• I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tea, Ironic, Selfishness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Reality, Honest

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• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Self, People

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• Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heaven, Secret, Atheism

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.17, A&C Black

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• To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Crush, Work, Character

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• 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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature

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• You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wall, Accepting, Consequence

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• I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life, Thinking, World Love

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• Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Order, World

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• All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stars, Lying, Night

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.266, Modern Library

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• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Despair, Hopelessness, Pleasure

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• Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Brother, Brotherhood, Facts

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)”, p.872, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gambling, Tables, Superstitions

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Kentish (1999). “Notes from the Underground, and The Gambler”, p.140, Oxford Paperbacks

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• There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Virtue, Immortality, Ifs

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nurse, People, Kind

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• Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Moments, Everlasting

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• One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Circumstances, Like Me

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• My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  My Friends, Ifs

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