Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Jesus Quotes, Believe Quotes

[to Jesus] You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and reviling you: "Come down from the cross and we will believe that it is you." You did not come down because, again, you did not want to enslave man by a miracle and thirsted for faith that is free, not miraculous...I swear, man is created weaker and baser than you thought him! How, how can he ever accomplish the same things as you? ...Respecting him less, you would have demanded less of him, and that would be closer to love, for his burden would be lighter.

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Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

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I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.

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If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

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Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

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Man is bound to lie about himself

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Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man.

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When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

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The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.

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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

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Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.

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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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