You can be sincere and still be stupid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTalking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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