Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Civilization Quotes

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

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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 have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

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Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

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And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

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They were like two enemies in love with one another.

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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

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Everything seems stupid when it fails.

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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

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If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

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Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

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Right attitudes produces right action

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Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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

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