إنني أحب الإنسانية، غير أن هناك شيئا في نفسي يدهشني: كلما ازداد حبي للإنسانية جملة واحدة، نقص حبي للبشر أفرادا

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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So, according to you, the other God does exist after all?'
'He doesn't exist, but He is. There's no pain in a stone, but there's pain in the fear of a stone.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: absurdism

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ان الآلام انواع : ان هناك آلام تخفض قيمتنا و تنقص قدرنا كالجوع مثلا فالناس تحب ان تصدقنا فيما يتعلق بهذا النوع من الالام ليجعلوا من انفسهم محسنين إلينا فيما بعد .. أما إذا كان الألم ارفع من ذلك درجة او درجتين إذا كان ألما نحتمله فى النضال من اجل فكرة مثلا فإن الناس يرفضون ان يصدقونه بإستثناء قلة قليلة و هم لا يصدقونه لأنهم حين نظروا إلى صاحبه رأوا ان رأسه لس ذلك الرأس الذى لابد ان يكون فى نظرهم رأس من يتألم فى سبيل قضية رفيعة تلك الرفعة كلها و هم عندئذ يأبون ان يتعاطفوا معه أى تعاطف دون ان يكون فى موقفهم هذا شئ من روح الشر على كل حال

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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These, gentlemen, are my rules: if I don't succeed, I keep trying; if I do succeed, I keep quiet; and in any case I don't undermine anyone. I'm not an intriguer, and I'm proud of it. I wouldn't make a good diplomat. They also say, gentlemen, that the bird flies to the fowler. That's true, and I'm ready to agree: but who is the fowler here, and who is the bird? That's still a question, gentlemen!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: youth night

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And if only fate would have sent him repentance - burning repentance that would have torn his heart and robbed him of sleep, that repentance, the awful agony of which brings visions of hanging and drowning!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: dreams

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...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: christianity religion profound means-justifying-the-ends sublime

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We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: humanity god theology interpretation

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But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that’s left is two times two makes four? Two times two makes four even without my will. Is that what you call free choice?"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tag: inspirational

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