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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nature, Freedom, People
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Insightful, Meaning Of Life

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith, Miracle, Realist

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sun, Brothers Karamazov, Knows
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Atheist, Children, Doubt

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Struggle, Needs, World
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.88, Vintage

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
People, Ridiculous, Miserable
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Goal, Mind, Littles
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.452, Vintage

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Firsts, Appearance, Symptoms
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.510, Google Publishing

If there is no God, then I am God.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
There Is No God, Ifs
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.562, 谷月社

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blood, Soul, Whole

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Loneliness, Believe, Men
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.907, e-artnow

Right attitudes produces right action

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Attitude, Action, Produce

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Forgiving, Earth
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.115, Clap Publishing, LLC.

The world will be saved by beauty.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
World, Saved
The Idiot pt. 3, ch. 5 (1868) (translation by Alan Myers)

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Feelings, Suffering

Be the sun and all will see you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Sun
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment”, p.576, First Avenue Editions

I utter what you would not dare think

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thinking, Dare
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith, Inspiration, Order

I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gratitude, Abuse, Add

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hurt, Doctors, Paris

You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Children, Stupid, Dirty

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain, Understanding, Feelings

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Purpose, He Man

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Secret, Purpose
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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