I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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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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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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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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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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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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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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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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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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