Famous Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Below are famous quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Russian novelist (1821 - 1881).

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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