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Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nature, Animal, Path

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness, Deep Thought, World
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If you love all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all things. For then your ability to perceive the truth will grow every day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Mind, Mystery

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mistake, Causes, Ruined

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Reality, People, Different

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Talking, Privilege
"Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money, Real, Sunset

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Intelligent, Men, Intelligence
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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 has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Positive, Happiness, Happy

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Respect, Self Esteem, Compelled
"The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Imagine, Great Person, Persons

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Devil, Helping
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sweet, Love You, Sorrow

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gratitude, World And Love, Embracing Love
1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.6, ch.3.

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.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Mean, People

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dream, Yoga, Reality
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.190, Xist Publishing

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Men, Sufficient
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.496, Bantam Classics

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kindness, Compassion, Law
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition”, p.129, ReadHowYouWant.com

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lonely, Blessed, Grateful
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.58, Modern Library

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Honesty, Integrity, Character
The House of the Dead (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett) See Pearl S. Buck 2; Ramsey Clark 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Heart, Glowing, Joy
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.441, First Avenue Editions

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crush, Meaningful, Work

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Men, Second Chance
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.238, 谷月社

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sarcastic, Sarcasm, People
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.2157, e-artnow

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Acting, Enough
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jessie Coulson (2008). “Crime and Punishment”, p.225, Oxford University Press

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