Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes - Page 2

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
  Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, People, Steps

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  What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Suffering

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

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• Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Being Happy, Gratitude, Men

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

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• The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suicide, Believe, Envy

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (p. 2151), 1874.

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• He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Everyday, Masters

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• You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Ignorance, Deep Thought

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To think too much is a disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Disease, Too Much

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• Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Acting, Enough

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

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  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Eye, Men

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• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Purpose

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Earth, Rational, Happens

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• Everything passes, only truth remains.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Remains

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.731, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life Changing, Intelligence, Crime And Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

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• Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Blood, Levels

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• The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Forgiving, Worship

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.131, Google Publishing

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• Wealth is the number of things one can do without.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Numbers, Wealth, Can Do

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• 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 as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Believe, Men

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.87, Bantam Classics

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• To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 - 1880.

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• Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Evil, Politics, Easier

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Healing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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  Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hard Work, Love Is, Long

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.428, Bantam Classics

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