More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
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.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
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.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
