Fyodor Dostoevsky Though Quotations

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

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

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

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

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

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

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.

Beauty would save the world.

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!

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

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

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

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