Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

وإني لأعتقد بإن أفضل تعريف يمكننا أن نُعرف به الإنسان هو أنه : كائنٌ عاق بساقين !!

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively in...

Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well.

Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction!

We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth.

Russia. I speak not only to fathers here, but to all fathers I cry out: ‘Fathers, provoke not your children!’ Let us first fulfill Christ’s commandment ourselves, and only then let us expect the same...

Yes, one day perhaps the leading intellects of Russia and of Europe will study the psychology of Russian crime, for the subject is worth it. But

Um momento total de felicidade? Sim! E isto não é o bastante para inundar uma vida?

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed for God sets us nothing but riddles.

Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain sensation of that age-old, sacred anguish which the chosen soul, havin...

The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.

The most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying…

Whoever does not believe in God will not believe in the people of God. But he who believes in the people of God will also see their holiness, even if he did not believe in it at all before.

Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity

Compassion was the principal and, perhaps, the only law of existence for the whole of mankind.

آیا هیچ می‌دانید که اگر شما گیوتین را به جلو صحنه آورده‌اید و آن را با این شادمانی و افتخار برافراشته و به آسمان رسانده‌اید

Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,' I began, infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the question of personal freedom are two d...

فانكـ لم تخجل منذ قليل أن تعترف بجوانبك السيئة وحتى عيوبكـ المضحكة. فأي الناس يملكـ هذهـ الجرأة اليوم؟. لا أحد يملكها ولا أحد يشعر بالحاجة إلى أن يحكم على نفسهـ .. حكماً موضوعيّاً.