Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

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

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Money is coined liberty.