More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
Money is coined liberty.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
