We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep. Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky More Quotes From Fyodor Dostoevsky You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you. Fyodor Dostoevsky ambitious hate ideas To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Fyodor Dostoevsky notes-from-the-underground care sometimes Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk. Fyodor Dostoevsky talking two thinking Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve? Fyodor Dostoevsky intelligent water men If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him. Fyodor Dostoevsky may men memories Hell is the inability to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky inability-to-love inability hell After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side. Fyodor Dostoevsky emotion real sides Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being. Fyodor Dostoevsky men philosophy life It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky easier atheist world Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid! Fyodor Dostoevsky goal mind littles If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. Fyodor Dostoevsky continuation-of-life dry-up literature Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me. Fyodor Dostoevsky self heart people How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? Fyodor Dostoevsky intelligent doe men One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters. Fyodor Dostoevsky bird giving children People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. Fyodor Dostoevsky men people thinking One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men! Fyodor Dostoevsky praying men believe Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself. Fyodor Dostoevsky what-matters life-is discovery To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving. Fyodor Dostoevsky belief character men Money is coined liberty. Fyodor Dostoevsky liberty What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone? Fyodor Dostoevsky what-matters lasts children
