Tolstoy or Dostoevsky Quotes

“When Tolstoy remarked to Gorky that Dostoevsky “ought to have made himself acquainted with the teachings of Confucius or the Buddhists; that would have calmed him down,” the underground man must have howled derisively from his lair.”
― George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism

“Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ’s divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.”
― George Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism