What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?
Fyodor DostoevskyOne must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.
Fyodor DostoevskyGrown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
Fyodor DostoevskyI used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Fyodor DostoevskyBut man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.
Fyodor DostoevskyAnd do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty
Fyodor Dostoevsky