If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions. Fyodor Dostoevsky eyementhinking Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. Fyodor Dostoevsky privilegetalkingmen Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith. Fyodor Dostoevsky miracledoespring The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it. Fyodor Dostoevsky insulted-himmenlying From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse. Fyodor Dostoevsky horsehundredrabbits May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life? Fyodor Dostoevsky gratefullonelyblessed By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation. Fyodor Dostoevsky freedomnaturepeople To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise. Fyodor Dostoevsky sufferinglove-islove My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky glowingheartjoy A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort Fyodor Dostoevsky effortphilosophyway He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely. Fyodor Dostoevsky hipsterfashionconceited All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary. Fyodor Dostoevsky ordinary-extraordinarylawpeople Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing. Fyodor Dostoevsky existentialismatheistifs Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. Fyodor Dostoevsky reasonactionforget The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Fyodor Dostoevsky purposesecretmen There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home. Fyodor Dostoevsky homememoriesyears And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet. Fyodor Dostoevsky sorrowlove-yousweet It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!" Fyodor Dostoevsky effortracemen I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living. Fyodor Dostoevsky brothers-karamazovknowssun I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky genuineconsciousnessdisease
