FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1821-1881) WAS A RUSSIAN NOVELIST, SHORT STORY WRITER, ESSAYIST, AND PHILOSOPHER.
“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.”
“Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
“Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
“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.”
“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.”
“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...”
“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.”
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”
“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”
“Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Writer's Diary, Volume 1: 1873-1876 (1994), p. 734
“Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it. But money can always and everywhere be spent, and, moreover, forbidden fruit is sweetest of all.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead (1915), as translated by Constance Garnett, p. 16
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead (1862) as translated by Constance Garnett; as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006) by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 210
“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Insulted and the Injured (1861)
“Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864), Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 23)
“The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864), Part 1, Chapter 8 (page 28)
“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 Underground (1864), Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 32)
“A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler (1866)
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
“Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
“Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866)
“Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man...”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868–9)
“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, The Idiot (1868–9)
“Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed (1872)
“There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?”
~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, ch. 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)
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