A Just Cause

I’ve got to read more Dostoevsky! I think you all might enjoy a few of his quotes. I’ve highlighted a few words here and there to make it a better simulation of a motivational poster!

• “A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes”
• “The soul is healed by being with children”€
• “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love“
• “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.”
• “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”€
• “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid“
• “Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled“
• “Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of their careers”€
• “Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain”
• “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“
• “There are… things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind”€
• “If there is no immortality, there is no virtue”
• “Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad“