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Deep Thought Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
- If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.
- The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
- Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
- Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has…
- If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
- Beauty would save the world.
- Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
- Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it;…
- One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say…
- Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
- To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
- To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
- Realists do not fear the results of their study.
- There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
- 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…
- It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
- So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
More Deep Thought Quotes
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. — Leonard Bernstein
- Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard
- Humor is just another defense against the universe. — Mel Brooks
- When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud… — Leo Burnett
- No pressure, no diamonds. — Thomas Carlyle
- In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. — Bruce Lee
- I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged… — Mark Twain
- The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever… — Charles Darwin