Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:wisdom stupidity

“If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:wisdom action

“Why live in real life? It's better to dream. One can dream the most delightful things, but real life is a bore.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:reality dream boredom

“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

topic:religion good evil

“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:religion belief

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:words sorrow

“If they knew that it was good for them, it would be good for them, but as long as they don't know it's good for them, it will be bad for them.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

topic:good

“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

topic:good

“The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:stupidity honesty intelligence

“It’s not that I don’t accept God, you must understand, it’s the world created by Him I don’t and cannot accept.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:world

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