Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
-
-
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
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 -
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Beauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
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 -
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
When reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY