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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love, Heart, Character
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Character, Men, Belief
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Xaver Winterhalter (2017). “The Idiot (English German edition illustrated): Der Idiot (Englisch Deutsch ausgabe illustriert)”, p.1109, Clap Publishing, LLC.

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crush, Work, Character

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspiration, Character, Giving

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life, Character, Men

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