It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYThe cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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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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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Beauty will save the world.
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I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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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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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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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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