“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky“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.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky“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.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky“If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky