Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“... you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“His malice was aimed at himself; with shame and contempt he recollected his "cowardice.”

“Daca, in realitate, omul nu este ticalos - omul in genere, semintia umana - atunci toate celelalte nu sunt decat prejudecati, temeri scornite de mintea noastra, si atunci nu mai este nicio stavila, toate sunt asa cum trebuie sa fie!”

“But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles.”

“É sabido pelas pessoas inteligentes que o cerne da amizade reside exclusivamente na humilhação.”

“In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk.”

“Remember young man, unceasingly,' Father Paissy began, without preface, 'that the science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred of old. But they have only analysed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous. Yet the whole world still stands steadfast before their eyes, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it Has it not lasted nineteen centuries, is it not still a living, a moving power in the individual soul and in the masses of the people? It is still as strong and living even in the souls of atheists, who have destroyed everything! For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardor of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.”

“I and all men have only one firm, incontestable, clear knowledge, and that knowledge cannot be explained by the reason--it is outside it, and has no causes and can have no effects. "If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

“El alma se cura estando con niños”

“أنا احب الهذر و الهذيان و الخطأ و الضلال . ان الخطأ هو الميزه الوحيده التى يتميز بها الكائن الانسانى على سائر الكائنات الحيه . من يخطىء يصل للحقيقه . انا انسان لاننى اخطأ ما وصل امرؤ الى حقيقه واحده الا بعد ان اخطأ اربع عشر مره ! و هذا فى ذاته ليس ما يعيب . و لكن الناس لا يعرفون حتى ان يخطئوا بأنفسهم . لك ان تقول اراء جنونيه، و لكن لتكن هذه الاراء اراءك انت ،لأن يخطىء المرء بطريقته الشخصيه ، فذلك يكون خيرا من ترديد حقيقه لقنه اياها غيره . انت فى الحاله الاولى انسان ، اما فى الحاله الثانيه بغبغاء لا اكثر .”

“لا يعيش أي إنسان دون هدف ما ودون جهد يبذل من أجل الوصول إلى هذا الهدف، ومتى غاب الهدف وزال الأمل، فإن القلق غالبًا ما يجعل من الإنسان وحشًا !”

“إن الأغنياء لا يحبون أبداً ان يشكو الفقراء حظهم جهاراً ، يظهر ان هذا يؤذيهم ويزعجهم .. والبؤس مزعج دائماً على كل حال ، كأن انات الفقراء تعوق نوم الأغنياء”

“You're Sappho, I'm Phaon, agreed. But there's one thing still troubling me: You don't know your way to the sea.”

“Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.”

“Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life...But on the whole you will bless life all the same.”

“what good is faith by force? Besides, proofs are no help to faith, especially material proofs. Thomas believed not because he saw the risen Christ but because he wanted to believe even before that.2 Spiritualists, for example … I like them so much … imagine, they think they’re serving faith because devils show their little horns to them from the other world. ‘This,’ they say, ‘is a material proof, so to speak, that the other world exists.’ The other world and material proofs, la-di-da! And, after all, who knows whether proof of the devil is also a proof of God? I want to join an idealist society and form an opposition within it: ‘I’m a realist,’ I’ll say, ‘not a materialist,’ heh, heh!”

“Those innocent eyes cut my soul like a razor...however, in a depraved man this, too, might be only a sensual attraction.”

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.”

“If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.”

“She is lying,” he thought to himself, biting his nails vindictively. “Proud creature! She won’t admit she wants to do it out of charity! Too haughty! Oh, base characters! They even love as though they hate... Oh, how I... hate them all!”