Top Ten Best Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky) Quotes, Phrases, Lines, & Written Works
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher.The Top Ten
1 To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things
2 To study the meaning of man & of life-I am making significant progress here..Man is a mystery:if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out,then do not say that you have wasted your time.I occupy myself with this mystery,because I want to be a man
3 If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
4 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.
5 If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.
6 The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
7 Money is coined liberty,& so..10 times dearer to..man who is deprived of freedom.If money is jingling in his pocket,he is half consoled,even though he cannot spend it.But money can always & everywhere be spent,&,moreover,forbidden fruit is sweetest of all
8 The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool-a faculty unheard of nowadays.
9 ...you don't show your own wisdom by shutting some one else in a madhouse.
10 Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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