Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Perfection Quotes, Understanding Quotes

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

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you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

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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.

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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.

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I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

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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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Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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And it is so simple... The one thing is - love thy neighbor as thyself - that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.

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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

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Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

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..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

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I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

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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.

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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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Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!

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It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

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It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!

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