Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky quotes
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
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Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.