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Great Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much…
- Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their…
- I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the…
- The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which…
- It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
- He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that…
- But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of…
- 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…
- And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for…
- I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a…
- You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up…
- The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't…
- Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
- Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great…
- 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…
- One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant…
- What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal…
- Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those…
- People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as…
- One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
- Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this…
- Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most…
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