You can be sincere and still be stupid.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYYou can be sincere and still be stupid.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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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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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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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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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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