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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Punishment, Given, Dare
1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Years, Ideas

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other "higher" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ideas, Soul, Might
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.734, Northwestern University Press

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hares
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.144, Google Publishing

The consciousness of life is higher than life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Consciousness, Life Is
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson, Kenneth Lantz (2009). “A Writer's Diary”, p.394, Northwestern University Press

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Food, Baking Bread, Bread

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering, Able, Consciousness

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Soul, Reason, Humiliate
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.226, Vintage

Love life more than the meaning of it?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Life, Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.351, First Avenue Editions

I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Would Be, Ridiculous
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.263, Modern Library

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Doe, Students
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.92, Youcanprint

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Love You, Love Is
"The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Book II, ch. 3, 1879 - 1880.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forgiving
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.523, Vintage

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal, Men, Engineering

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Perception, Earth
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “The Grand Inquisitor”, p.14, Xist Publishing

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Agonizing, Alluring
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brother, Lying, Firsts
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.543, Bantam Classics

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Feelings, Suffering, Trying
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.14, Google Publishing

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Eye, Winter, Boys

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Believe, Men, Praying

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
World, Absurdity, Happens
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.243, Macmillan

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Home, Widows, Cleanliness

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wise, Stupid, Believe
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, World, Lasts
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Too Much, Consciousness, Sickness

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