From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.”
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Quote of the day 01/25/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”
Quote of the day 01/24/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
Quote of the day 01/23/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.”
Quote of the day 01/22/24
From Fyodor 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.”
Quote of the day 01/21/24
From 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.”
Quote of the day 01/20/24
From John Locke: “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
Quote of the day 01/19/24
From John Locke: “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
Quote of the day 01/18/24
From John Locke: “It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.”
Quote of the day 01/17/24
From John Locke: “To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
