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.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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Beauty will save the world.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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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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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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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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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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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 go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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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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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
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