Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Ideas Quotes

We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.

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As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

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The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

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Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

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Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

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... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

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Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

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Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

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