Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
"Only through suffering can we find ourselves.""Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.""It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.""Above all, be the hero of your life, not the victim.""Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.""Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.""The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.""Man is a mystery. It needs to be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.""The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God.""A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.""Realists do not fear the results of their study.""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.""The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.""I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.""Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.""To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.""The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.""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.""Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.""Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
