More Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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.
Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
The soul is healed by being with children.
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.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Money is coined liberty.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.