From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
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Quote of the day 02/01/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
Quote of the day 01/30/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Quote of the day 01/28/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.”
Quote of the day 01/27/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
Quote of the day 01/26/24
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.”
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.”
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