1821-1881, Russian Novelist
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Purpose]
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Losers and Losing]
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Goals]
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Work]
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Happiness]
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Atheism]
If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Laughter]
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Nationalities and Nationalism]
It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Gratitude]
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Habit]
Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Love]
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Lies and Lying]
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Humankind]
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Ideas]
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Reality]
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Sarcasm]
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Action]
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Happiness]
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.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Jesus Christ]
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevski – [Purpose]