A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example? Fyodor Dostoevsky example use christ Beauty will save the world Fyodor Dostoevsky christian beauty world And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? Fyodor Dostoevsky idle wells suffering To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. Fyodor Dostoevsky understanding perfection may After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning capacity alone, which is no more than some one-twentieth of my capacity for living. What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't very reassuring, but why not admit it?), while human nature acts as a complete entity, with all that is in it, consciously or unconsciously; and though it may be wrong, it's nevertheless alive. Fyodor Dostoevsky alive life order We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. Fyodor Dostoevsky russian-literature gogol overcoat I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. Fyodor Dostoevsky loneliness --you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me. Fyodor Dostoevsky hurt-me done hurt If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things. Fyodor Dostoevsky embracing-love world-and-love gratitude But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky one-day men years I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered. Fyodor Dostoevsky great-person imagine persons Catch several hares and you won't catch one. Fyodor Dostoevsky hares For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe? Fyodor Dostoevsky choices desire men You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache. Fyodor Dostoevsky mysterious ache In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin. Fyodor Dostoevsky sin guilt men Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. Fyodor Dostoevsky angel heart children To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky honest disease real I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest nastiness precisely lay in my being shamefully conscious every moment, even in moments of the greatest bile, that I was not only not a wicked man but was not even an embittered man, that I was simply frightening sparrows in vain, and pleasing myself with it. Fyodor Dostoevsky wicked gentleman men There is not a thing that is more positive than bread. Fyodor Dostoevsky baking-bread bread food Reason is the slave of passion. Fyodor Dostoevsky slave passion reason
