Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

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I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.

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A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.

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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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All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

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Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

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How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

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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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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

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People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

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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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I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

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Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

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Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.

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A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

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Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

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Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

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