Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 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. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
