Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Love Quotes, Heart Quotes

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

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Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be under control again at once.

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In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

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Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

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Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

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To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

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Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

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Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

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I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

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What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

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