More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
The soul is healed by being with children.
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 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.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Money is coined liberty.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
