The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor DostoevskyHuman laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
Fyodor DostoevskyTo achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
Fyodor DostoevskyOr renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky