Dostoevsky: Infinite Justice

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease.

A collection of Dostoevsky memes. The ultimate dumbing down of a timeless classic, or the best thing to happen to time-poor bookworms since Cliffs Notes went online.

Dostoevsky’s hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him.

Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems, Part II & James L. Rice, “Dostoevsky’s Endgame”. Image: "Das Rendezvous der Freunde", Max Ernst.

Let us first of all and before all be kind, then honest, and then – let us never forget one another.

The Brothers Karamazov, Epilogue & Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Image: "Saint Russia", Mikhail Nesterov.

Russian Atheism has never gone further than making a joke.

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevksy responses to Part I. Part I. Image: "Demons", Ekaterina Shugrina.

What's more, even fools are by genuine sorrow turned into wise men.

Demons by Fyodor Dostoevksy responses to Part I. Part II. Image: "Separation", Edvard Munch.

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

Demons by Fyodr Dostoevksy responses to Part II. Image: Illustration, Diana Nesypova.

Rather than go preaching to people about what they ought to be, show them through your own example.

Diary of a Writer by Fyodr Dostoevksy responses. Image: "Dostoevsky and the Symbol of The Crystal Palace", Bishop Maxim,.

In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodr Dostoevksy responses. Parts I & II. Image: "The Night before the Exam", Leonid Pasternak.

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevksy responses. Part III. Image: In Russia (Soul of the people, Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevksy responses. Part IV. Image: "Unexpected visitors", Ilya Repin.