Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky If there is no God, then I am God. Fyodor Dostoevsky there-is-no-god ifs I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own. Fyodor Dostoevsky bores-you philosophy people To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man. Fyodor Dostoevsky progress trying men The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. Fyodor Dostoevsky atheist doubt children Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. Fyodor Dostoevsky suffering feelings heart Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all; and when once thou perceive this, thou wilt thenceforward grow every day to a fuller understanding of it: until thou come at last to love the whole world with a love that will then be all-embracing and universal. Fyodor Dostoevsky light animal love Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference. Fyodor Dostoevsky differences suicide waiting To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be. Fyodor Dostoevsky persons Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering. Fyodor Dostoevsky seductive sad men To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. Fyodor Dostoevsky hate love-is life At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. Fyodor Dostoevsky existence art firsts Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky happy positive happiness Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification. Fyodor Dostoevsky cutting doe reality There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas. Fyodor Dostoevsky writing spring ideas Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us! Fyodor Dostoevsky nature religious love The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoevsky honesty integrity character Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely. Fyodor Dostoevsky acting enough For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky echoes ocean world It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens. Fyodor Dostoevsky eye believe fall I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! Fyodor Dostoevsky suffering want
