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Fyodor Dostoevsky has 578 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud…
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There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't…
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Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character…
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would…
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a…
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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's…
— J. William Fulbright
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Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people…
— Betsy Lerner
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The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we…
— Ernest Becker
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
— Charles Mengel Allen
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A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
— Isaac Asimov
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We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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