Beauty will save the world.

What it means

In the novel, Ippolit mockingly asks Prince Myshkin if he really said it. The book takes the question seriously: can goodness and beauty redeem a broken world. Make something beautiful anyway.

The source

"Beauty will save the world." Fyodor Dostoevsky said it in The Idiot, Part 3, ch. 5. Translated by Eva Martin, 1915.

"Is it true, prince, that you once declared that ‘beauty would save the world’?"

Eva Martin, 1915, The Idiot, Part 3, ch. 5. Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881). Russian novelist who survived a mock execution and Siberian prison camp. He wrote Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov.

Questions

What does "Beauty will save the world." mean?

In the novel, Ippolit mockingly asks Prince Myshkin if he really said it. The book takes the question seriously: can goodness and beauty redeem a broken world. Make something beautiful anyway.

Who said "Beauty will save the world."?

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881). Source: The Idiot, Part 3, ch. 5.

What is the original wording?

Is it true, prince, that you once declared that ‘beauty would save the world’? (Eva Martin, 1915). Translated by Eva Martin, 1915.

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