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QuoteWorld :: Men :: Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Quotes by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky in Men category:
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"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man." 4.9000 average rating  
"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...[W]hat is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword." 5.0000 average rating  
"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid." 4.7000 average rating  
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." 4.8750 average rating  
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." 5.0000 average rating  
"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for." 4.2000 average rating  
"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." 5.0000 average rating