But how could you live and have no story to tell? Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people. Fyodor Dostoevsky nice intelligent ideas .. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness Fyodor Dostoevsky men way needs God knows what lives in me in place of me. Fyodor Dostoevsky god-knows knows There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light. Fyodor Dostoevsky light facts ideas Beauty would save the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky save-the-world deep-thought world One can fall in love and still hate. Fyodor Dostoevsky falling-in-love hate fall I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse. Fyodor Dostoevsky gratitude abuse add [to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter. Fyodor Dostoevsky men believe jesus I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity. Fyodor Dostoevsky punishment suffering humanity Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! Fyodor Dostoevsky scoundrels used men In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system. Fyodor Dostoevsky dream memories life In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. Fyodor Dostoevsky libertarian feet food Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you! Fyodor Dostoevsky love-you beautiful children Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest. Fyodor Dostoevsky homeopathy dose strongest Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky heart spring believe In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. Fyodor Dostoevsky humanitarianism abstract humanity Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. Fyodor Dostoevsky genius careers history I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. Fyodor Dostoevsky suffering humanity children ...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational. Fyodor Dostoevsky imagination say-anything world That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. Fyodor Dostoevsky taverns stones way
