Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Atheist Quotes, Believe Quotes

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

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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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After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

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The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.

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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

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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 earth.

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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

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...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.

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Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God.

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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

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

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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

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Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

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Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

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At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.

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Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

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