Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

" Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. " # Goals # Freedom # Power

" The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. " # Purpose

" Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea. " # Ideas

" Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't it true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look, how to understand, we're all like that, all, you, and I, and they! Now, you're not offended when I tell you to your face that you're ridiculous? And if so, aren't you material? You know, in my opinion it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous, if not better: we can the sooner forgive each other, the sooner humble ourselves; we can't understand everything at once, we cant start right out with perfection! To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. This I tell you, you, who have already been able to understand. .. and not understand ... so much. I'm not afraid for you now; " # Forgiveness # Love # Critics and Criticism

" To live without Hope is to Cease to live. " # Hope # Freedom # Power

" In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wake up from it. It was the same in my dream. I did not feel any pain, but it seemed as though with my shot everything within me was shaken and everything was suddenly dimmed, and it grew horribly black around me. I seemed to be blinded, and it benumbed, and I was lying on something hard, stretched on my back; I saw nothing, and could not make the slightest movement. " # Genius # Love # Dreams

" The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. " # Happiness # Freedom # Power

" The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. " # Judgment and Judges # Society # Civilization

" If there is no God, everything is permitted. " # Atheism