Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Beauty is mysterious, like life itself"

"The soul is healed by making others happy"

"Man can get used to anything, the scoundrel"

"I love humanity, but I wonder at myself sometimes"

"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness"

"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons"

"Without suffering, what is the pleasure of life"

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him"

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

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams"

"Believe in yourself and others will too"

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

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"You can measure the happiness of a society by how much freedom its inhabitants enjoy"

"People speak sometimes about the 'bestial' cruelty of the Middle Ages, but that's very unjust"

"If there is no God, everything is permitted"

"Grief is the price we pay for love"

"It is not the brains that matter most, but what guides them"

"The time will come when they will say that it is all very well to laugh at spiritualism"

"A man may take a very selfish nature in the strictest sense of the word"

"When you leave out the spiritual element in life, the whole thing becomes a lie"

"I love the human, but I cannot stand mankind"

"Consciousness is a disease"

"The soul is healed through creation"

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love"

"Tears water our growth"

"Every person has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone"

"If you want to understand, go to life, not to books"

"Two plus two makes four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death"

"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for"