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...there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

…there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  1. Explaining how much I you is like explaining how the water tastes from the drops of the rain – Chief Justice Moalusi Tlotlo
  2. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning… – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. To believe, man needs no full reasoning.Without reasoning, it turns into myophia. – Toba Beta
  4. The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  5. If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless. – Darryl F Zanuck
  6. Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you… well, useless. – Daniel Nayeri
  7. Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction–only enough to make you useless. – Daniel Nayeri
  8. If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there’s no reason to believe it. – Sean Carroll
  9. Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility. – Ron Paul
  10. He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power. – Graham Greene
  11. Man does not live by bread alone. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  12. For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  14. Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  16. What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  17. Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  18. Woe to the man who offends a small child! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  19. Bah! You want to hear the vilest thing a man’s done and you want him to be a hero at the same time! – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  20. Everything which is of use to mankind is honourable. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  21. It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated… – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  22. At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  23. Because I couldn’t bear my burden and have come to throw it on another: you suffer too, and I shall feel better! And can you love such a mean wretch? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  24. Consciousness is man’s greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  25. And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better – cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. The Russian soul is a dark place. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  27. What a man need is simply and solely independence volition, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  29. I’m a master of speaking silently-”all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  30. Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who’re best able to decieve themselves. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  31. The queen who mended her stockings in prison must have looked every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  32. If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  33. The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  34. He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  35. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  36. -¦but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur-¦ – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  37. Equality is to be found only in the spiritual dignity of man – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  38. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  39. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn’t want millions, but an answer to their questions. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  40. Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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