It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love someone means to see them as God intended them.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
-
-
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Beauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
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 -
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 DOSTOEVSKY -
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY