Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

ذلك أن العلم يا بني ليس دائما ميزة. فمن الناس من يتباهى وينقاد للرغبة في إدهاش العالم، فلو كنتُ عالما فقد أرغب في ذلك أكثر من سائر البشر. أما وأنني جاهل لا أعرف شيئا فكيف يمكنني أن أتباهى؟

فلا تتردد إذن في أن تتميز عن جمهرة الناس ولو أمسيت وحيداً من نوعكـ ..

فلما صدق توقعي ابتسمت... لأن المرء يبتسم دائما حين يصدق توقعه

قالت لي امرأة ذكية في يوم من الأيام: ليس من حقي أن أحكم علي الآخرين لأنني لا أجيد الألم, ومن أجل أن ينصب المرء نفسهحاكماً وقاضياً, يجب عليه أن يكتسب حق الحكم بما يقاسي من الألم.

لكأن مشكلة النفس الإنسانية، لكأن المصير الذي ينتظرنا في الحياة الآخرة، أصبحت غريبة عن عقولهم، وهم قد نسوا ودفنوا هذا النوع من الاهتمامات والتساؤلات منذ زمن طويل..

We are all happy if we but knew it.

You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps.- You do despise me! It's simply that I don't want to do good, I want to do evil, and it has nothing to do with...

Poor Sonya! What a little gold-mine they've managed to get hold of there! And profit from! Oh yes, they draw their profits from it! And they've got used to it. They wept at first, but now they are use...

A wise man can't seriously make himself anything, only a fool makes himself anything.

All this time we sat without speaking. I was considering how to begin. It was twilight in the room, a black storm−cloud was coming over the sky, and there came again a rumble of thunder in the distanc...

Am văzut nenumărați oameni cărora e destul să le torni o găleată de apă rece în cap, ca să-și renege nu numai faptele, dar și ideile, care sunt gata să râdă primii de ceea ce socoteau sfânt cu un ceas...

An officer put me in my place from the first moment.I was standing by the billiard-table and in my ignorance blocking up the way, and he wanted to pass; he took me by the shoulders and without a word-...

And indeed, what aim in life is more important and sacred than a father’s? To what should one adhere, if not to one’s family?

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?

I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I

I am an inveterate buffoon, and been from birth up, your reverence, it's as though it were a craze in me. I dare say it's a devil within me. But only a little one. A more serious one would have chosen...

I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equivalent to his crime. A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a crimina...

I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves in spring. I love the blue sky. I love some...

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this f...