Quotes Tagged With :ostoevsky

St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite....

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended.....

The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even....

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several....

...and in fact I've noticed that faith always seems to be less in the daytime

The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that....

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

You're not Dostoevsky,' said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who....

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated....

And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it....