Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Common Sense Quotes

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

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I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman."

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In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

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The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

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The greater man the greater courtesy.

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It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

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Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world.

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Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

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Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

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It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

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