Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
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One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
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Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread.
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If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness
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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'
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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
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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted
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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.
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
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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
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Science which has become a great power in the last<br/>century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to<br/>us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the<br/>learned of this world have nothing left of all that<br/>was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and<br/>overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is<br/>marvelous.
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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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