What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean by: Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth. Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia Copy
+ …chance may do anything. Author, September 28, 2023January 2, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Control, Fate, Unpredictability, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Knowledge, Learning, Reasoning, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
+ The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. Author, September 27, 2023January 2, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Appearance, Fear, Impotence, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
If he’s honest, he’ll steal; if he’s human, he’ll murder; if he’s faithful, he’ll deceive. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Deception, Dishonesty, Violence, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
…it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Optimism, Perspective, Uncertainty, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
For if there’s no everlasting God, there’s no such thing as virtue, and there’s no need of it. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, God, Need, Virtue, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Evil, Good, Redemption, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
+ Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness Author, June 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Forgiveness, Happiness, Passivity, 0 Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Painter · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted Max Ernst Surrealist artist · Germany