Quotes Tagged With :fyodor

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated....

Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices....

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully....

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

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely....

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these....

Science and reason have, from the beginning of time, played a secondary and subordinate part in the life....

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both....

Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man....