Fyodor Dostoyevsky195 definitions
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1821 – 1881
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The Absurd (n.) is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
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The Absurd (n.) is that upon which the world stands, and without absurdities perhaps nothing at all would happen.
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Adaptation (n.) is inherent in man. He is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything.
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Adaptation (n.) is a necessary faculty of that scoundrel, man. He can grow used to everything.
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The Animal (n.) is by no means the purveyor of 'bestial' cruelty that man is. No animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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Atheism (n.) is, for the Russian, not a negation, but a new faith, something he 'believes' in.
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Atheism (n.) is never a total renunciation for those who have renounced religion still follow the religious ideal in their inmost being. No person has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by christ of old.
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Atheism (n.) seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion (in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it) by force rather than by christ.
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Beauty (n.) is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
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Beauty (n.) is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
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Being in love (n.) is not the same thing as loving.
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A Breakdown (n.) is never a thing one can predict. Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruelest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.
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Brotherhood (n.) will not come to pass until we have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone.
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The Child (n.) lives to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
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A Civilization (n.) is best judged by how it treats its prisoners.
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Civilization (n.) has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
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Civilization (n.) merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and absolutely nothing else.