"A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart." ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognise truth, either in himself or on anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I am not contradicting myself: a fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. It's an old truth. I am a fool with a heart and no sense, and you are a fool with sense and no heart, and so we are both unhappy and miserable." ~from "The Idiot" By Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Love children especially, for like the angels they too are sinless, and they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us. Woe to him who offends a child!" ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"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 had enough happiness provided for it." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Beauty will save the world.” ~Fyodor Dosteovsky
"For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I am not contradicting myself: a fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart. It's an old truth. I am a fool with a heart and no sense, and you are a fool with sense and no heart, and so we are both unhappy and miserable." ~from "The Idiot" By Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"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 had enough happiness provided for it." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery." ~Dostoevsky
"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." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“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." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The soul is healed by being with children." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The world will be saved by beauty." ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky from personal correspondence (1839), via Everyman's Library
“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." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The soul is healed by being with children." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The world will be saved by beauty." ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” ~Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky from personal correspondence (1839), via Everyman's Library
"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky; Crime and Punishment
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