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Dostoevsky became a writer who penetrated the darkest depths of the Russian soul. He was nicknamed the real "psychologist of the pen", the researcher of the human heart for the fact that he empathized with all his heroes. Because the feelings they experienced were familiar to him firsthand.
We have collected 25 wise quotes from Fedor Mikhailovich that provide food for thought.
- One must love life more than the meaning of life.
- No one makes the first move because everyone thinks it's not mutual.
- In everything there is a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to turn back.
- Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
- The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
- To stop reading books means to stop thinking.
- Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.
- There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.
- In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.
- It takes very little to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is of no use to anyone.
- My friend, remember that silence is good, safe and beautiful.
- A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
- He is a smart person, but in order to act smartly, one mind is not enough.
- If you go to the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.
- I want to talk about everything with at least one person, as with myself.
- It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!
- Here you need to speak eye to eye ... so that the soul is read on the face, so that the heart is expressed in the sounds of the word. One word spoken with conviction, with complete sincerity and without hesitation, face to face, means much more than dozens of sheets of scribbled paper.
- Life goes breathless without an aim.
- The soul is healed next to the children.
- Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.
- Beauty will save the world.
- In fact, people sometimes express themselves about the “brutal” cruelty of man, but this is terribly unfair and offensive to animals: a beast can never be as cruel as a person, so artistically, so artistically cruel.
- Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice.
- Do not litter your memory with insults, otherwise there may simply not be room for wonderful moments.
- A person who can hug is a good person.
Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin
I present to you a selection quotes by the writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky .
Part of them causes rejection but they are all interesting.
Impressed by what they not smoothed under the image of a great writer, because sometimes the quotes of great people are too didactic and impersonal.
Dostoevsky wrote a lot, and there were also many quotations. They are spaced by topic: human manifestations, people, women, religion and atheism, Russia and Russians, Europe, life, happiness and unhappiness, improvement of the world and oneself, love, children, writing and writers, books, meaning and goals, truth and truth, beauty, socialists and liberals, war, intelligence, dreamers, etc.
About human manifestations
Know that there is such a limit of shame in the consciousness of one's own insignificance and weakness, beyond which a person can no longer go, and from which he begins to feel tremendous pleasure in his very shame.
At the basis of all human virtues lies the deepest selfishness.
Scoundrels love honest people.
It was something that always happens: the one you love more, the first one you insult.
You're a smart and kind person and...and... it's a pity you're such a fool!
Many people are honest because they are fools.
Everyone says that they hate the bad, but inwardly everyone loves it.
Friendship is only a glorified word, in essence: a mutual outpouring of wash.
A man loves the fall of the righteous and his disgrace.
There are moments when people love crime.
They say that those who stand on high seem to be dragging themselves down into the abyss.
The secret consciousness of power is unbearably more pleasant than open domination.
The low soul, having come out from under oppression, oppresses itself.
I hate you, precisely because I have allowed you so much, and even more hateful because I need you so much. But for now I need you - I need to take care of you.
It was like two enemies in love with each other.
A person in shame usually becomes angry and inclined towards cynicism.
All direct people and actors are active because they are dull and limited.
I don't know how to be silent when my heart speaks.
And I am a master of speaking in silence, I have spoken silently all my life and have lived whole tragedies with myself in silence.
It is sometimes very difficult for a strong person to bear his strength.
I have come to warn you: do not lend me money, because I will certainly ask.
The worse the better.
About people
A scoundrel-man gets used to everything!
There is nothing more offensive to a man of our time and tribe than to tell him that he is not original, weak in character, without special talents and an ordinary person.
A person does not live all his life, but composes himself, composes himself.
Humans are made to hurt each other.
However, how joy and happiness make a person beautiful!
A person who can hug is a good person.
After all, it is necessary that every person should have at least one such place where he would be pitied!
I even think that the best definition of a person is: a creature on two legs and ungrateful.
Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.
Curious what people are most afraid of? They are most afraid of a new step, a new word of their own.
The properties of an executioner are in the bud in almost every modern person.
In most cases, people, even villains, are much more naive and simple-minded than we generally conclude about them. Yes, and so are we.
Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if you will unravel it all your life, then do not say that you have wasted time; I am engaged in this secret because I want to be a man.
People do not love, moreover, hate those whom they offended.
Am I a trembling creature or do I have the right ...
It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!
What can a decent person talk about with the greatest pleasure? Answer: about yourself.
Do you know that quite a lot of people are ill precisely with their own health, that is, with exorbitant confidence in their normality, and are thereby infected with terrible self-conceit, shameless self-admiration, sometimes reaching almost the conviction of their infallibility.
About women
The life of every woman, no matter what she preaches, is an eternal search for someone to obey.
Women are our great hope, perhaps they will serve all of Russia at the most fateful moment.
A woman is always a woman, even a nun.
Women were ruined only by unoriginality.
Women have such cases when it is very, very pleasant to be offended, despite all the visible indignation. They all have, these cases something. But this is especially true for women.
A fool with a heart and no mind is just as unfortunate a fool as a fool with a mind without a heart. Old truth.
There are women who are only fit for mistresses and nothing else.
Every woman has her own zest, but in order to find it, you do not need to crumble the whole pie.
There is such a trait in the female character that if, for example, a woman is guilty of something, then she will sooner agree later, later, to make amends with a thousand caresses than at the present moment, during the most obvious evidence of a misconduct, confess it and ask for forgiveness .
About religion and atheism
I would believe in you, God, if the children didn't cry.
The harmony of the world is not worth the tears of a tortured child.
I do not accept God, I do not accept the world created by him and cannot agree to accept.
In my opinion, Christ's love for people is, in its own way, a miracle impossible on earth. Indeed, he was a god. But we are not gods.
I already need God because he is the only being who can be loved forever.
Whoever wants to see the living God, let him look not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.
The absence of God cannot be replaced by love for humanity, because a person will immediately ask: why should I love humanity?
Man did nothing but invent God in order to live without killing himself; that's all The World History still.
Man seeks not so much God as miracles.
The most serious problems of modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.
Conscience without God is horror, it can stray to the most immoral.
If somehow it turned out ... that Christ is outside the truth and the truth is outside of Christ, then I would prefer to stay with Christ outside the truth ...
The idea of immortality is life itself, living life, its final formula and the main source of truth and correct consciousness for humanity.
Atheism is an aristocratic disease, a disease higher education and development, therefore, must be repugnant to the people.
Religion is only a formula of morality.
In abstract love for humanity one almost always loves oneself.
About Russia and the Russian people
No, it's better at home: here, at least, you blame others for everything, but justify yourself.
The more we are national, the more we will be Europeans (all people).
In our strange Russia, you can do whatever you want.
I think that the most important, the most fundamental spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, everlasting and insatiable, everywhere and in everything. He seems to have been infected with this thirst for suffering from time immemorial. The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
The Russian people are ready to forget whole torments for one kind word.
The highest and sharpest characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.
It is so easy for a Russian to become an atheist, easier than for everyone else in the whole world! And our people do not just become atheists, but will certainly believe in atheism, as if in a new faith, without even noticing that they have believed in zero.
Russian people in general are broad people ... wide, like their land ...
Russian quite often laughs where it is necessary to cry.
You show a Russian schoolboy a map of the starry sky, about which he had no idea until then, and tomorrow he will return this map corrected to you. No knowledge and selfless conceit.
In Russia, drunk people are the kindest. Most kind people we have the most drunk.
The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true.
Literacy causes arrogance in the people.
A Russian without Orthodoxy is rubbish, not a person.
About Europe
To the Russian, Europe is as precious as Russia; every stone in it is sweet and dear... Oh, these old foreign stones are dear to Russians, these miracles of God's old world, these fragments of holy miracles; and even that is dearer to us than to them!
Nothing will ever be given away. We will work, we will have our own opinion. And since we will never work, then those who have worked instead of us until now, that is, all the same Europe, all the same Germans - our bicentennial teachers, will have an opinion for us.
Paris is the only city in the world where you can suffer without being miserable.
About life
The fantastic is the essence of reality.
Absurdities are too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities, and without them, perhaps nothing at all would have happened in it.
Life goes breathless without an aim.
One must love life more than the meaning of life.
Compassion is the main and, perhaps, the only law of the existence of all mankind.
Moral deprivation is harder than all physical torments.
The point is in life, in one life, in its uninterrupted and eternal discovery, and not at all in discovery!
Power is given only to those who dare to bend down and take it.
Every decent person should be under the shoe of at least some woman.
Humanity is only a habit, a fruit of civilization. She may disappear completely.
AT Time of Troubles fluctuations or transitions always and everywhere there are different little people.
Every provincial lives as if under a glass cap. There is absolutely no way to hide anything from your respectable fellow citizens.
Being only then begins to be when non-being threatens it.
Went to have fun, got to the funeral.
On Happiness and Unhappiness
If you like, a person must be deeply unhappy, because then he will be happy. If he is constantly happy, he will immediately become deeply unhappy.
Man is unhappy because he does not know that he is happy; just because. It's everything, everything! Whoever finds out will immediately become happy, this very minute.
Unhappiness is a contagious disease. The unfortunate and the poor need to stay away from each other, so as not to become even more infected.
There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.
Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
Happiness is not only in the pleasures of love, but in the highest harmony of the spirit.
When the whole person reaches happiness, then there will be no more time, because there is no need.
You know, I don't understand how you can walk past a tree and not be happy to see it? Talk to a person and not be happy that you love him!
Do not litter your memory with insults, otherwise there may simply not be room for wonderful moments.
When we are unhappy, we feel the unhappiness of others more strongly.
About improving the world and yourself
Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.
How to destroy evil on earth? - Destroy the world.
To achieve perfection, one must first not understand much.
What seems bad to you inside of you is cleared by the mere fact that you have noticed it in yourself.
A fool who confesses that he is a fool is no longer a fool!
Here you need to speak eye to eye ... so that the soul is read on the face, so that the heart is expressed in the sounds of the word. One word spoken with conviction, with complete sincerity and without hesitation, face to face, means much more than dozens of sheets of scribbled paper.
You will say that we must correct the children. Listen: we should not exalt ourselves over children, we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them the best, then they teach us a lot and also make us the best by our mere contact with them.
About love
In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.
Why praise love? For suffering. People like to feel like holy martyrs, hostages of passions. Love is the most complex emotion, but it is finite, like everything in this world. And there is nothing sacred in it, as well as in those who believe and wait for it.
I love you because you didn't fall in love with me.
Perfection cannot be loved; perfection can only be looked upon as perfection.
The joy of love is great, but the suffering is so great that it is better not to love at all.
No one makes the first move because everyone thinks it's not mutual.
All love passes, but dissimilarity remains.
I love her not with love, but with pity.
About children
You can tell a child everything, everything. Nothing can be hidden from children, under the pretext that they are small and that it is too early for them to know.
Children, while children, up to seven years old, for example, are terribly separated from people: it’s just like a different creature and with a different nature.
Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.
There are no more precious memories for a person than from the first childhood in his parental home.
Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice.
Children in schools are a ruthless people: individually angels of God, but together, especially in schools, they are very often ruthless.
A person who was not a child will be a bad citizen.
About writing and writers
Art is such a need for a person as to eat and drink. The need for beauty and creativity, embodying it, is inseparable from man, and without it, man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Remember my testament: never invent either plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our inventions! No imagination can invent for you what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life!
I have now re-read what I have just written, and I see that I am much smarter than what I have written. How does it come about that what an intelligent person says is much more stupid than what remains in him?
A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
About books
It happens that you live, and you don’t know that you have a book next to you, where your whole life is laid out as if on your fingers.
When I see people around me, not knowing what to do with my free time, seek the most pitiful occupations and entertainments, I look for a book and say inwardly: this one is enough for a whole life.
On Meaning and Purpose
I want to talk about everything with at least one person, as with myself.
It takes very little to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is of no use to anyone.
The main idea should always be unattainably higher than the possibility of its implementation.
If you go to the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.
About Truth and Truth
Truth without love is a lie.
Truth is more poetic than anything in the world...
The real truth is always implausible, did you know that? To make the truth more plausible, you must certainly mix lies with it.
You have no tenderness: only truth, therefore, is unfair.
You need to be a really great person to be able to resist even against common sense.
About beauty
Beauty will save the world.
Beauty is not only a terrible, but also a mysterious thing. Here the devil is fighting with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of people.
Beauty is inherent in everything healthy.
On Socialists and Liberals
You know, socialism in our country is spreading mainly out of sentimentality.
In essence, our teaching is a denial of honor, and that it is most easily possible to drag a Russian person along with a frank right to dishonor.
A Christian socialist is more terrible than an atheist socialist.
Our Russian liberal is first and foremost a lackey and only looks to clean someone's boots.
"Higher liberalism" and "higher liberal", that is, a liberal without any purpose, are possible only in Russia alone.
About war
An international war brings only one benefit, in all respects, and therefore is absolutely necessary.
War refreshes people. Humanity develops most of all only on the battlefield.
Generosity perishes in periods of long peace. A long peace hardens people. A long peace produces apathy, baseness of thought, debauchery, dulls the senses. Social preponderance during a long peace always in the end passes to gross wealth.
If there had been no war in the world, art would have died out completely. All best ideas arts are given by war, struggle.
About the mind
He is a smart person, but in order to act smartly, one mind is not enough.
Limited people ... do stupid things much less than smart people.
Stupidity is short and simple, but the mind wags and hides. The mind is a scoundrel, but stupidity is direct and honest.
About dreamers
The dreamer is not a person, but, you know, some kind of middle-class creature.
I'm a dreamer; I have so little real life that I consider such moments as this, as now, so rare that I cannot help but repeat these moments in my dreams. I dream about you all night, all week, all year.
About selfishness
Science says: love yourself first of all, for everything in the world is based on personal interest.
Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to some kind of duty.
Will the light fail, or should I not drink tea?
About lies
The main thing - do not lie to yourself. He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to such a point that he does not distinguish any truth either in himself or around him, and therefore enters into disrespect both for himself and for others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and in order to occupy himself and entertain himself, having no love, he indulges in passions and gross sweets and comes completely to bestiality in his vices.
Lying is the only human privilege over all organisms.
About the soul
The soul is healed next to the children.
Laughter is the surest test of the soul.
About the devil and hell
If the devil does not exist and, therefore, man created him, then he created him in his own image and likeness.
What is hell? - Suffering that it is no longer possible to love.
About freedom
Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.
I tell you that there is no more painful concern for a person than to find someone to whom to transfer as soon as possible the gift of freedom with which this unfortunate creature is born.
About money
Money is minted freedom.
A man with money is a man everywhere.
About myself
My name is psychologist. Not true. I am only a realist in the highest sense - that is, I depict all the depths of the human soul.
I am afraid of only one thing - to be unworthy of my torment.
About Miscellaneous
In fact, people sometimes express themselves about the “brutal” cruelty of man, but this is terribly unfair and offensive to animals: a beast can never be as cruel as a person, so artistically, so artistically cruel.
My friend, remember that silence is good, safe and beautiful.
In everything there is a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to turn back.
The foolish pave the way for the wise to follow.
Time is the relation of being to non-being.
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of every independence.
I noticed that in a cramped apartment, even thoughts are cramped.
As you have noticed, in this review of Dostoevsky's quotes no division on his personal quotes and quotes from his works. In this case, this seems especially justified, since, as Yu. Aikhenvald noted, “much stronger than other writers, in his faces and scenes he gives only the embodiment, the objectification of his personal feelings and passions. All this is psychology, his own psychology in faces, in living hieroglyphs of the author's confession; all this is a painful revelation of his unparalleled, speckled and furrowed soul. It is she who, with Rembrandt's light or her Rembrandt's darkness, breaks through all the piling up of the plot in his novels, through all this leapfrog and nonsense of events, through the hustle and bustle of ideas and feelings that form some kind of coven of witches.
By the way, I have got the impression that quotations from Dostoevsky's works are usually more lively, varied, often paradoxical; while Dostoevsky the publicist has more rectilinearly correct, doctrinaire statements.
In conclusion, a few quotes about Dostoevsky:
- L. Tolstoy: An inimitable psychologist-psychologist and a completely independent writer, whose independent convictions were not forgiven for a long time in some layers of literature, just as one German, according to Carlyle, could not forgive the sun for the fact that you cannot light a cigar from it at any moment. (by the way, quotes from Tolstoy)
- P. Struve: Dostoevsky in one person is both a great artist and a religious thinker, a combination, if the only one in world literature, then at least the only one next to and after Dante.
- N. Berdyaev: A person who has joined the world of Dostoevsky becomes a new person, other dimensions of being are revealed to him.
- V. Nabokov: I feel a certain sense of embarrassment when talking about Dostoevsky. In my lectures, I usually look at literature from the only angle that interests me, that is, as a phenomenon of world art and a manifestation of personal talent. From this point of view, Dostoevsky is not a great writer, but rather mediocre, with outbursts of unsurpassed humor, which, alas, alternate with long wastelands of literary platitudes.... Frankly, I passionately want to debunk Dostoevsky. But I am aware that the average reader will be confused by the arguments presented. (By the way, Nabokov quotes)
- I. Brodsky: But not only for the sake of authenticity, Dostoevsky's heroes, with almost Calvinistic persistence, bare their souls before the reader. Something else forces Dostoevsky to turn their lives inside out and look at all the folds and wrinkles of their spiritual ins and outs. And this is not a pursuit of Truth. For the results of his inquisition reveal something more, something that transcends Truth itself: they expose the primary fabric of life, and this fabric is unsightly. He is pushed to this by a force whose name is the omnivorous gluttony of the language, which one fine day does not have enough of God, man, reality, guilt, death, infinity and Salvation, and then he pounces on himself. (By the way, Brodsky quotes)
Moreover, if someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and indeed it would be that the truth is outside of Christ, then I would rather stay with Christ than with the truth.
Money
Money is minted freedom.
Wife
A smart wife and a jealous wife are two different things.
Women
A woman will deceive the very all-seeing eye.
Life
Without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a person cannot go out into life from childhood; without the rudiments of the positive and beautiful, a generation cannot be allowed to travel.
Life goes breathless without an aim.
Remember my testament: never invent either plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our inventions! No imagination can invent for you what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life!
It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself ...
One must love life more than the meaning of life.
Evil
Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.
Knowledge
Knowledge does not regenerate a person: it only changes him, but changes him not into one universal, official form, but according to the nature of this person.
True
If they prove to me that the truth is outside of Christ, and Christ is outside of the truth, then I would rather stay with Christ than with the truth.
Love
Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.
In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.
The joy of love is great, but the suffering is so great that it is better not to love at all.
World
Beauty will save the world.
peoples
The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true.
Writers
The greatest skill of a writer is to be able to cross out. Who knows how and who is able to cross out his own, he will go far.
A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
Truth
The real truth is always implausible. To make the truth more plausible, you must certainly mix lies with it. People have always done this.
Russia
The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
Is it possible that even here they will not allow and allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.
The highest and most feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.
Laugh
With laughter, some person gives himself away completely, and you suddenly recognize all his ins and outs.
Happiness
Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
Human
It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself.
Humor
The arousal of compassion for the ridiculed and priceless beauty is the secret of humor.
Humor is the wit of deep feeling.
on other topics
Only by assimilating the original material to the maximum possible perfection, that is, native language, we will be able to master a foreign language as well as possible, but not before.
The fantastic is the essence of reality.
Atheism often manifests itself as a result of higher education and personal development, therefore, should be incomprehensible to the common people.
Wealth, coarseness of pleasures breed laziness, and laziness breeds slaves.
No science can form a society if there is no noble material, a living and good will, to live honestly and lovingly.
Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
He who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to such a point that he does not distinguish any truth either in himself or around him, and, therefore, enters into disrespect both for himself and for others.
Falling in love does not mean loving: you can fall in love and hate.
Life goes breathless without an aim.
Man, in addition to happiness, just as exactly and completely in the same amount, needs misfortune!
Do not litter your memory with insults, otherwise there may simply not be room for wonderful moments.
In order to morally destroy a person, you need to convince him of the futility and uselessness of what he does.
There are things in the recollections of every person that he reveals not to everyone, but only to his friends.
A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.
Only by labor and struggle is achieved originality and self-esteem.
Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.
It's amazing what a single ray of sunshine can do to a person's soul!
Mystical ideas love persecution, they are created by it.
Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind.
Let the jury forgive the criminals, but the trouble is if the criminals begin to forgive themselves.
The most serious problems of modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.
You can comprehend and feel both correctly and at once, but you cannot become a man at once, but you must stand out as a person.
One must love life more than the meaning of life.
I read strangely, and reading has a strange effect on me. I read something that I have long re-read, and as if I strain myself with new forces, I delve into everything, clearly understand, and I myself extract the ability to create.
My friend, remember that silence is good, safe and beautiful.
Whoever desires to see the living God, let him seek him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.
Big ones do not know that a child, even in the most difficult task, can give extremely important advice.
To be surprised at nothing is, of course, a sign of stupidity, not intelligence.
In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy.
When I see around me how people, not knowing what to do with their free time, are looking for the most miserable occupations and entertainments, I look for a book and say inwardly: this one is enough for a lifetime.
Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.
Contact with nature is the most the last word all progress, science, reason, common sense, taste and excellent manners.
The description of a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than the denunciation of bribe-takers, because here there is contact with nature, with love for nature.
Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.
Removal from society is necessary for public truth.
Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands tied, can do a lot of good.
Strength does not need cursing.
There is nothing so beautiful that there is not even more beautiful, and there is nothing so bad that there is not even worse.
There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.
Break through the heart. Here is a deep reasoning, for what is "piercing the heart"? - Instill morality, the thirst for morality.
Science will point out the benefits and will only prove that it is most beneficial to be honest.
In fact, people sometimes express themselves about the “brutal” cruelty of man, but this is terribly unfair and offensive to animals: a beast can never be as cruel as a person, so artistically, so artistically cruel.
Voluptuousness causes sensuality, voluptuousness - cruelty.
Dostoevsky's quotes
It takes very little to destroy a person: one has only to convince him that the business he is engaged in is of no use to anyone.
The main idea should always be unattainably higher than the possibility of its implementation.
The real truth is always implausible ... To make the truth more believable, you must certainly mix lies with it. People have always done this.
The value of high ideals and ideas lies in the constant search for opportunities to achieve them.
Only that which coincides with your sense of beauty and with the ideal in which you embody it is moral.
Art never left a person, always met his needs and his ideal, always helped him in finding this ideal - it was born with a person, developed alongside his historical life.
But what am I to do if I know for sure that the basis of all human virtues is the deepest egoism. And the more virtuous the deed, the more selfishness there is. Love yourself - that's one rule that I recognize. Life is a business deal.
Those who are easily inclined to lose respect for others, first of all, do not respect themselves.
Fantasy is a natural force in man. Without giving it satisfaction, either you will kill it, or vice versa - you will let it develop excessively.
Religion is only a formula of morality.
He was kind to those to whom he did kindness, and especially to those to whom he did kindness.
You can comprehend and feel both correctly and at once, but you cannot become a man at once, but you must stand out as a person.
People would understand that there is no happiness in inaction, that a thought that does not work will go out, that one cannot love one’s neighbor without sacrificing one’s labor to him, that it is vile to live on a gift, and that happiness does not lie in happiness, but only in achieving it ...
Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before.
The consciousness of one's complete impotence to bring at least some benefit to mankind, while convinced of the suffering of mankind, can even turn love for humanity into hatred for it in your heart.
Free institutions are good when they are in the hands of people who respect themselves, and therefore respect their own duty, the duty of a citizen.
Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to some kind of duty.
Only then is the feeling purified when it comes into contact with the highest beauty, with the beauty of the ideal.
Society is built on moral principles.
No one makes the first move because everyone thinks it's not mutual.
The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
Women are our great hope, perhaps they will serve all of Russia at the most fateful moment.
The most characteristic feature of our people is an exaggerated sense of justice.
In everything there is a line beyond which it is dangerous to cross; for once crossed, it is impossible to turn back.
People, people - the most important thing. People are more valuable than money.
Public civic ideals that are not organically connected with moral ideals have never existed, and cannot exist!
Compassion is the highest form of human existence.
I want to talk about everything with at least one person, as with myself.
No amount of progress is worth a child's tear.
The soul is healed next to the children.
If you go to the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.
Sarcasm is the last trick of people who are bashful and chaste at heart, who are rudely and obsessively climb into the soul.
Only that war is useful, which is undertaken for an idea, for a higher and great principle, and not for material interest, not for greedy capture.
The joy of love is great, but the suffering is so great that it is better not to love at all.
The self-sacrifice of oneself for the benefit of all is a sign the highest development personality.
No, he who loves does not reason - you know how they love! (and his voice trembled, and he whispered passionately): if you love pure and love her purity in a woman and suddenly you are convinced that she is a lost woman, that she is depraved - you will love her depravity in her, this disgusting disgusting to you, you will love in it ... that's what love is!
Praise is always chaste.
In abstract love for humanity, you almost always love yourself alone.
The best quotes from Dostoevsky:
Those who do not understand their purpose are most often deprived of self-esteem.
Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.
A decent tone is one of sincerity and honesty.
There is nothing harder than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.
Does the quote "beauty will save the world" continue?
On the Internet, people often ask this question. In fact, this quote has no continuation. This is a phrase torn from the novel The Idiot. Ippolit Terentyev uttered the words to Prince Myshkin and they sound like this:
“Is it true, prince, that you once said that “beauty” would save the world? Gentlemen,” he shouted loudly to everyone, “the prince claims that beauty will save the world! And I say that he has such playful thoughts because he is now in love. Lord! The prince is in love; just now, as soon as he entered, I was convinced of this. Don't blush, prince, I'll feel sorry for you. What beauty will save the world. Kolya told me this. Are you a zealous Christian? Kolya says that you call yourself a Christian.”
To which Prince Myshkin did not answer him.
Philosophy of Dostoevsky (quotes and aphorisms)Quotes and Aphorisms / Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (October 30 (November 11), 1821, Moscow, Russian empire- January 28 (February 9), 1881, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) - one of the most significant Russian writers and thinkers. Father, Mikhail Andreevich, worked in a hospital for the poor. Mother, Maria Feodorovna (nee Nechaeva), came from a merchant family. In Russia, there is a long tradition that philosophy was truly represented only in the literary works of our writers - Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov, Tolstoy and, of course, Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky’s philosophy cannot be reduced only to Orthodox reasoning about God, “a child’s tear”, reasoning “everything is allowed”, etc. As O. M. Nogovitsyn showed in his work, Dostoevsky is the most prominent representative of “ontological”, “reflexive” poetics, which unlike traditional, descriptive poetics, it leaves the character in a certain sense free in his relationship with the text that describes him (that is, the world for him), which is manifested in the fact that he is aware of his relationship with him and acts on the basis of it. Hence all the paradox, inconsistency and inconsistency of Dostoevsky's characters. If in traditional poetics the character always remains in the power of the author, always captured by the events happening to him (captured by the text), that is, he remains wholly descriptive, wholly included in the text, wholly understandable, subordinate to causes and effects, the movement of the narrative, then in ontological poetics we are for the first time we come across a character who is trying to resist the textual elements, his subordination to the text, trying to “rewrite” it. With this approach, writing is not a description of a character in diverse situations and positions in the world, but empathy with his tragedy - his willful unwillingness to accept the text (the world), in his inescapable redundancy in relation to him, potential infinity. For the first time, M. M. Bakhtin drew attention to such a special attitude of Dostoevsky to his characters.
Quotes and aphorisms
Meanwhile, a fantasy sometimes entered my head: well, what if there were not three million Jews in Russia, but Russians; and there would be 80 million Jews, well, what would the Russians turn into from them and how would they treat them? Would they let them equal their rights? Would they be allowed to pray among them freely? Wouldn't they turn you into slaves? Worse than that: would they not have completely torn off the skin! Wouldn't they have been beaten to the ground, to the point of final extermination, as they did with foreign nationalities in the old days, in their ancient history? No, sir, I assure you that there is no prejudiced hatred of the Jew among the Russian people, but there is, perhaps, a dislike for him, especially locally, and perhaps even a very strong one. Oh, you can’t do without it, it exists, but it doesn’t happen at all from the fact that he is a Jew, not from tribal, not from some kind of religious hatred, but it happens from other reasons for which it is no longer the indigenous people who are to blame, but themselves Jew.
An atheist cannot be Russian, an atheist immediately ceases to be Russian.
Poverty is not a vice.
Humanity cannot live without generous ideas.
Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.
Without ideals, that is, without at least some definite desire for the best, no good reality can ever come about.
Wealth, coarseness of pleasures breed laziness, and laziness breeds slaves.
After all, he was a man of the smartest and most gifted, a man, so to speak, even of science, although, by the way, in science ... well, in a word, in science he did not do much, and, it seems, nothing at all. But with people of science in Russia, this happens all the time.
Being exists only when non-being threatens it, being only then begins to be when non-being threatens it.
To gather in America, but be afraid of the rain ?!
In a truly loving heart, either jealousy kills love, or love kills jealousy. The exact opposite happens with passion.
In abstract love for humanity one almost always loves oneself.
That is the hallmark of true art, that it is always up-to-date, vitally useful.
A generous heart can love out of pity….
The cheerfulness of a person is an outstanding feature of a person.
Wine brutes and beasts a person, hardens him and distracts him from bright thoughts, dulls him.
To fall in love does not mean to love ... You can fall in love and hate.
The arousal of compassion for the ridiculed and priceless beauty is the secret of humor.
The magic of entertainment should help, not hinder.
The question is not whether there are casts or not, but whether they exist at all.
Time is the relation of being to non-being.
The whole second half of human life is usually made up of nothing but habits accumulated in the first half.
All this foreign country is just a fantasy. And all of us abroad are just a fantasy.
The highest and most characteristic feature of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.
There is only one highest idea on earth, and it is precisely the idea of the immortality of the human soul, because all the other "higher" ideas of life that a person can be alive follow from it alone.
The main thing in a person is not the mind, but what controls it: character, heart, good feelings, advanced ideas.
The main thing - do not lie to yourself.
Humanity is only a habit, a fruit of civilization. She may disappear completely.
Cursed be these interests of civilization, and even civilization itself, if it is necessary to flay people's skin to preserve it.
Money is minted freedom.
For a real Russian, Europe and the lot of the entire great Aryan tribe are just as dear as Russia itself, like the lot of their native land.
My friend, it is impossible to love people as they are. And yet, it should. And so do them good by squeaking your feelings, holding your nose and closing your eyes.
A fool who confesses that he is a fool is no longer a fool.
It is a bad sign when one ceases to understand irony, allegory, or joke.
If anyone destroys Russia, it will not be communists, not anarchists, but damned liberals.
If you take everything alien so to heart and if you sympathize with everything so strongly, then right, there is reason to be the most unhappy person.
If you are heading towards the goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach the goal.
If you want to conquer the whole world, conquer yourself.
There are moments when people love crime.
There are three kinds of scoundrels in the world: naive scoundrels, that is, those who are convinced that their meanness is the highest nobility, scoundrels who are ashamed of their own meanness with the indispensable intention to finish it all the same, and, finally, simply scoundrels, purebred scoundrels.
There are three forces, the only three forces on earth that can forever conquer and captivate the conscience of people, these weak rebels, for their happiness - these forces: miracle, mystery and authority. You rejected both, and the other, and the third, and you yourself set an example for this. Or have you forgotten that peace and even death is more precious to a person than free choice in the knowledge of good and evil? But only he who deceives their conscience seizes the freedom of people. You longed for the free love of man - with a free heart a person should henceforth decide for himself what is good and what is evil, having only Your image in front of him as a guide - but did You not think that he would reject and dispute even Your image and Your truth, if he will be oppressed by such a terrible burden as freedom of choice?
Women are our great hope, perhaps they will serve all of Russia at the most fateful moment.
Life goes breathless without an aim.
Knowledge does not regenerate a person: it only changes him, but changes him not into one universal, official form, but according to the nature of this person.
And why are you so firmly, so solemnly convinced that prosperity alone is beneficial to a person? After all, maybe he loves suffering just as much?.. A person loves to create and pave roads. But why does he also passionately love destruction and chaos? Tell me this!.. Meanwhile, I am sure that a person will never give up real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos.
The idea of immortality is life itself, living life, its final formula and the main source of truth and correct consciousness for humanity.
It is more advantageous to have someone else among your enemies than among your friends.
Art is such a need for a person as to eat and drink. The need for beauty and creativity, embodying it, is inseparable from man, and without it, man, perhaps, would not want to live in the world.
Honor disappears - the formula of honor remains, which is tantamount to the death of honor.
Unfortunately, the truth is almost always not witty.
Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.
No matter how crude flattery, at least half of it certainly seems to be true.
How good life is when you do something good and true.
A scoundrel-man gets used to everything!
Beauty will save the world.
Those who are easily inclined to lose respect for others, first of all, do not respect themselves.
He who does not love nature does not love man, he is not a citizen.
Whoever conquers pain and fear will become God himself.
Whoever wants to be useful, even with his hands literally tied, can do an abyss of good.
Only rascals lie.
Only by labor and struggle is achieved originality and self-esteem.
Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before.
Love is inconceivable without self-sacrifice.
Love is so omnipotent that it regenerates us ourselves.
People, people - the most important thing. People are more valuable than money.
The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true, for which it sighs.
Almsgiving corrupts both the giver and the taker, and moreover, it does not reach its goal, because it only increases begging.
Mystical ideas love persecution, they are created by it.
Many people are honest because they are fools.
It may be that the whole goal on earth, towards which humanity is striving, consists only in the continuity of the process of achieving, in other words, life itself.
We should not exalt ourselves above children, we are worse than them. And if we teach them something to make them better, then they make us better by our contact with them.
That's what the mind is to achieve what you want.
You have to be a really great person to be able to resist even against common sense.
One must love life more than the meaning of life.
The real truth is always implausible... To make the truth more believable, one must by all means mix lies with it. People have always done this.
You didn't eat the idea, but the idea ate you.
Not strong the best, but honest. Honor and dignity are the strongest.
You can't love what you don't know!
You will pass the world by falsehood, but you will not return back.
Unhappiness is a contagious disease. The unfortunate and the poor need to stay away from each other so as not to become more infected.
No idea how to donate own life defending his brothers and his fatherland...
There is nothing in the world more difficult than straightforwardness and nothing easier than flattery.
There is no happiness in inaction.
There is no happiness in comfort, happiness is bought by suffering.
There is no idea, no fact that cannot be vulgarized and presented in a ridiculous way.
Is it possible that even here they will not allow and allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.
To be surprised at nothing is, of course, a sign of stupidity, not intelligence.
But what am I to do if I know for sure that the basis of all human virtues is the deepest egoism. And the more virtuous the deed, the more selfishness there is. Love yourself - that's one rule that I recognize. Life is a business deal...
You need to be a truly great person to be able to resist even against common sense.
For a limited ordinary person, for example, there is nothing easier than to imagine oneself as an unusual and original person and enjoy it without any hesitation.
He was kind to those to whom he did kindness, and especially to those to whom he did kindness.
The description of a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than the denunciation of bribe-takers, because here there is contact with nature, with love for nature.
Justify, do not punish, but call evil evil.
The main idea should always be unattainably higher than the possibility of its implementation.
A writer whose works have not been successful easily becomes a bilious critic: so a weak and tasteless wine can become an excellent vinegar.
Suspecting evil before good is an unfortunate trait characteristic of a dry heart.
Praise is always chaste.
When you fail, everything seems stupid!
Break through the heart. Here is a profound reasoning: for what is "piercing the heart"? - Instill morality, the thirst for morality.
The one who gave birth is not yet the father, but the father is - the one who gave birth and deserved it.
Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind.
To the Russian, Europe is as precious as Russia; every stone in it is sweet and dear... Oh, these old foreign stones are dear to Russians, these miracles of God's old world, these fragments of holy miracles; and even that is dearer to us than to them!
The most serious problems of modern man stem from the fact that he has lost the sense of meaningful cooperation with God in His purpose for mankind.
The most downtrodden, the last person is also a person and is called my brother.
Freedom is not in not restraining oneself, but in being in control of oneself.
Strength does not need cursing.
Compassion is the highest form of human existence.
The old always looks better.
It took some of our young ladies to cut their hair, put on blue glasses and call themselves nihilists, to immediately be surprised that, having put on glasses, they inapplicably began to have their own "convictions".
Suffering and pain are always indispensable for a wide consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great people... must feel great sadness in the world.
The Russian people, as it were, enjoy their suffering.
Happiness is not in happiness, but only in achieving it.
That is why a great moral thought is strong, that is why it unites people into the strongest union, that it is not measured by immediate benefit, but strives them into the future, towards eternal goals, towards joy ...
Whoever desires to see the living God, let him seek him not in the empty firmament of his own mind, but in human love.
A woman, for example, sometimes has a need to feel unhappy, offended, even if there were no offenses or misfortunes.
We Russians have two Homelands - our Russia and Europe.
A smart wife and a jealous wife are two different things.
Learn and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.
Fantasy is a natural force in a person... If you don't give it satisfaction, you will either kill it, or, conversely, you will let it develop, precisely excessively (which is harmful)...
The fantastic is the essence of reality.
A person laughing well means a good person.
Man is the whole world, if only the basic impulse in him were noble.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be guessed. I do this mystery because I want to be human.
A person in shame usually becomes angry and inclined towards cynicism.
A person does not live all his life, but composes himself, composes himself.
Man is a creature that gets used to everything, and I think this is the best definition of man.
A person lives most at a time when he is looking for something.
In addition to happiness, a person just as exactly and absolutely needs misfortune to the same extent!
The more we are national, the more we will be Europeans (all people).
How will you unite people to achieve your civic goals, if you do not have a foundation in the original great moral idea?
Honest and sensitive person frankly, and a business man listens and eats, and then eats.
What appears to the mind as a disgrace, then to the heart is entirely beauty.
To love in simplicity, one must know how to show love.
To act smart, one mind is not enough.
Egoists are capricious and cowardly in the face of duty: they have an eternal cowardly aversion to bind themselves to some kind of duty.
Humor is the wit of deep feeling.
I am strongly convinced that not only a lot of consciousness, but even any consciousness is a disease.
I do not want and cannot believe that evil is the normal state of people.
I am guilty before him, therefore, I must take revenge on him.
I can't imagine a situation where there was never anything to do.