"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Goals
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"It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?"

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Gratitude
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Habit
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Happiness
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Happiness
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"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Hope
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"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Humankind
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"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Ideas
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"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Illness
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"The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Jesus Christ
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Laughter
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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Lies and Lying
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"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Losers and Losing
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"Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Love
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"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Memory
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"It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Nationalities and Nationalism
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"If there is no God, everything is permitted."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Atheism
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Purpose
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Purpose
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"Realists do not fear the results of their study."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Reality
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"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Sarcasm
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Action
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"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Work
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