Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“With Sergey Ivanovitch it was quite the contrary. Just as he liked and praised a country life in comparison with the life he did not like, so too he liked the peasantry in contradistinction to the class of men he did not like, and so too he knew the peasantry as something distinct from and opposed to men generally. In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life. He never changed his opinion of the peasantry and his sympathetic attitude towards them.”
“ Le plaisir n’est pas dans la découverte de la vérité, mais dans sa recherche. ”
“he knew that his unbelief came not from life being easier for him without faith, but had grown up because step by step the contemporary scientific interpretation of natural phenomena crushed out the possibility of faith;”
“-Amad a los que os odian-murmuró Dolly tímidamente. Karenin sonrió con desprecio. Conocía la máxima hacía mucho, pero sabía que no convenía a su caso. -Podemos muy bien amar a los que nos odian, pero a los que nosotros odiamos no.”
“It was as though there were something in this which she could not or would not face, as though as soon as she began to speak of this, she, the real Anna, retreated somehow into herself, and another, strange and unaccountable woman came out, whom he did not love, and whom he feared, and who was in opposition to him.”
“В Европе рациональное хозяйство идет потому, что народ образован; стало быть, у нас надо образовать народ, – вот и все. – Но как же образовать народ? – Чтобы образовать народ, нужны три вещи: школы, школы и школы.”
“Quando vide tutte queste cose, per un momento gli venne un dubbio sulla possibilità di questa nuova vita della quale aveva sognato lungo il viaggio. Tutte queste tracce della sua vita passata lo riprendevano e pareva che gli dicessero: «No, tu non ci sfuggirai, non diventerai un altro ma resterai quello che sei, coi tuoi dubbi, con la tua eterna scontentezza, coi vani tentativi di migliorarti e le tue ricadute, con la tua perpetua attesa di una impossibile felicità». Ma questo gli dicevano le cose: intanto un’altra voce interiore gli diceva che si può fare tutto ciò che veramente si vuole.”
“setting against him every defect she could find in him, softening nothing for the great wrong she herself was doing him.”
“Seeing Alexei Alexandrovich with his fresh Petersburg face41, his sternly self-confident figure, his round hat and slightly curved back, he believed in him and experienced an unpleasant feeling, like that of a man suffering from thirst who comes to a spring and finds in it a dog, a sheep or a pig who has both drunk and muddied the water.”
“The memory of all that had happened to her after her illness: reconciliation with her husband, the break-up, the news of Vronsky's wound, his appearance, the preparation for the divorce, the departure from her husband's house, the leavetaking from her son - all this seemed to her a feverish dream from which she had awakened abroad, alone with Vronsky.”
“...the ones who leaped to the forefront and shouted louder than the rest were all the failures and the aggrieved: commanders-in-chief without armies, ministers without ministries, journalists without journals, party chiefs without partisans.”
“I assume that a salary is the price paid for a commodity, and it ought to conform with the law of supply and demand. If the salary is fixed without any regard for that law, as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together, both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other is satisfied with two; or when I see lawyers and hussars, having no special qualifications, appointed directors of banking companies with immense salaries, I conclude that the salary is not fixed in accordance with the law of supply and demand, but simply through personal interest. And this is an abuse of great gravity in itself, and one that reacts injuriously on the government service.”
“her object is doing good; she’s a Christian, yet she’s always angry; and she always has enemies, and always enemies in the name of Christianity and doing good.”
“It is a secret, necessary and important for me alone, and inexpressible in words.”
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“in the whole world, there existed for him only himself, with enormously increased importance and dignity in his own eyes, and she.”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.