Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And man has actually invented God. And whats strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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