"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass……" — Fyodor Dostoevsky
"They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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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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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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
— Denis Waitley
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
— P T Barnum
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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