"Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly."
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585 Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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…
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory,…
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More Commandment Quotes
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
— Bertolt Brecht
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country…
— Sharron Angle
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
— George Washington
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I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to.…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here…
— Learned Hand
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If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
— Learned Hand
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There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can…
— William James
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'Take offense at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment.
— Richard Dawkins
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The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can…
— Emily Post
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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