A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man. Fyodor Dostoevsky realmenthinking Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods! Fyodor Dostoevsky worship Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution. Fyodor Dostoevsky resolveresolutionloss Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself. Fyodor Dostoevsky inappropriateconfusedtaste I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is. Fyodor Dostoevsky world You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. Fyodor Dostoevsky educationbeautifulmemories I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger. Fyodor Dostoevsky wallheartmoving Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering. Fyodor Dostoevsky engineeringanimalmen What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. Fyodor Dostoevsky fogwhat-ifcities Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too. Fyodor Dostoevsky mathgivingtwo 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 atheismsecretheaven Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Fyodor Dostoevsky vegetarianismjoyanimal 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 honeststupidreality In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. Fyodor Dostoevsky dreambrainreality If the person laughs well, they are a good person. Fyodor Dostoevsky theologiangood-personlaughing That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up. Fyodor Dostoevsky sensitive-manheartmen We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty. Fyodor Dostoevsky paradiselife-iswish Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it. Fyodor Dostoevsky creationopinionworld Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies. Fyodor Dostoevsky lawadvicetwo It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience. Fyodor Dostoevsky punishmentreallying
