If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact. Fyodor Dostoevsky mind want facts What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky independent choices men I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye. Fyodor Dostoevsky eye believe people If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others. Fyodor Dostoevsky love-you love-is life Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel. Fyodor Dostoevsky atheist men believe The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. Fyodor Dostoevsky absurdity happens world Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky trouble men Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with Fyodor Dostoevsky loving-someone being-in-love hate One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man. Fyodor Dostoevsky good-man laughing men God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. Fyodor Dostoevsky mother heart baby Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all. Fyodor Dostoevsky manage men looks I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God. Fyodor Dostoevsky worry men long Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Fyodor Dostoevsky karma father children A hundred suspicions don't make a proof. Fyodor Dostoevsky suspicion proof hundred Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky prophet worship men Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid. Fyodor Dostoevsky love-is life people Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. Fyodor Dostoevsky giving children people Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky sorrow men thinking I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good. Fyodor Dostoevsky encounters laughing men The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment. Fyodor Dostoevsky sin suffering men
