Fyodor Dostoevsky 29 Most Inspiring Mp3 Audio Quotes Life, Beauty, Love, Society

“ To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s. ” – Dostoevsky

“ Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness. ” – Dostoevsky

“ The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. ” – Dostoevsky

“ Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I’ll kiss you for it. ” – Dostoevsky

“ Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.” – Dostoevsky

“ The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.” – Dostoevsky

“ What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Dostoevsky

“ The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God.” – Dostoevsky

“ People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” – Dostoevsky

“ The soul is healed by being with children.” – Dostoevsky

“ Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.” – Dostoevsky

“ Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” – Dostoevsky

“ Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Dostoevsky

“ 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.” – Dostoevsky

“ The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” – Dostoevsky

“ It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.” – Dostoevsky

“ Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.” – Dostoevsky

“ The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” – Dostoevsky

“ Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideas, show me something better, and I will follow you.” – Dostoevsky

“ A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.” – Dostoevsky

“ If he’s honest, he’ll steal; if he’s human, he’ll murder; if he’s faithful, he’ll deceive.” – Dostoevsky

“ Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.” – Dostoevsky

“ When reason fails, the devil helps.” – Dostoevsky

“ If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.” – Dostoevsky

“ What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?” – Dostoevsky

“ Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.” – Dostoevsky

“ Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.” – Dostoevsky

“ Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.” – Dostoevsky

“ Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” – Dostoevsky