Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes - Page 6

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

إن من أسوأ وأدنأ الأشياء المتعلقة بالمال أنه قادر على شراء كل شيء حتى المواهب وستبقي هذه %

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time!

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.