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Letter "F" » Fyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes
«So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
incessantly, painfully, remains, so long, strives, worship
«Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain»
«Realists do not fear the results of their study.»
«I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too»
«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»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Logic,
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
abstract, abstracted, abstracting, deductions, deny, distort, evidence, intentionally, justify, predilection, predilections, senses, systems
«There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.»
«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»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accumulated, accumulates, accumulating, first half, habits, in fact, made-up, second half, Second Life, The Second
«If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness»
«In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, 'Make us your slaves, but feed us»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
feed, freedom of the will, in the end, lay, slaves
«The socialist who is a Christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
atheist, Christian, dreaded, dreading, socialist, socialists, The Socialist
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