Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Engineering Quotes, May Quotes

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

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Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

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But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.

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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

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One can fall in love and still hate.

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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

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For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

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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.

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With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.

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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

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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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If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

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I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

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No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

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