It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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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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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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The 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.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Beauty will save the world.
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