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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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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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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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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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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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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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