Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

Right attitudes produces right action

There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty would save the world.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them, character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.