Quotes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.

Change is what people fear most.

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

Without God all things are permitted.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.The Brothers KaramazovMitya (Dmitri) to Aloysha who visits him in prison, Book XI - Ivan, Chapter 4 - A Hymn and a Secret.

Truth with love is a lie

Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.