Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:fear society

“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:fear risk

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:heart pain suffering intelligence

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:heart beauty fight

“Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:heart importance

“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:strength suffering weakness

“Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man, and that will only be understood among us.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:understanding equality

“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:power greatness responsibility

“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,' the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

topic:beauty

“fools are made for wise men's profit.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wisdom stupidity

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