Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
God knows what lives in me in place of me.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky