“I am interested only in the question: is it, or is it not, good that I have pleased everybody?”
“The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.”
“And why should we be looking for “solid hate”? — The honesty and sincerity of our society not only cannot be doubted, but they even spring up into one’s eyes.”
“A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.”
“Judge [people] not by what they are, but by what they strive to become.”
Dostoyevsky on Why There Are No Bad People
“I was alive and therefore could suffer, be angry and feel shame for my actions. Very well. But if I were to kill myself, […] what have I to do with shame or with anything on earth?”
“It became clear to me that life and the world, as it were, depended upon me. I might even say that the world had existed for me alone. “
“All are tending to one and the same goal, at least all aspire to the same goal, from the wise man to the lowest murderer, but only by different ways. It is an old truth, but there is this new in it: I cannot go far astray. I saw the truth. I saw and know that men could be beautiful and happy, without losing the capacity to live upon the earth. I will not, I cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of men.”
“And it is so simple… The one thing is — love thy neighbor as thyself — that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live.”
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…”
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
Finding the Meaning Of Life In Suffering
Stephen Colbert in an interview:
“It’s a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering.”
“I have some understanding that everybody is suffering and […] acknowledge their suffering and to connect with them and to love them.”
“What’s the point in being human if you can’t be the most human you can be?”
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