Fyodor Dostoevsky Thought Quotations

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Beauty would save the world.

Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.