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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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Personal Development
"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"The madness in the heart is the state of mind."
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Personal Development
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"The Holy Spirit can take God's word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs."
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Personal Development
"No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes."
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Personal Development
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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Personal Development
"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes dead is better."
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Personal Development
"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
Life
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Beauty
"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."
Man
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
Man
"If there is no God, everything is permitted."
God
"The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions."
Philosophy
"In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!"
Reflection
"Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort."
Community
"Children can be told anything-anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
Parenting
"I am leaving now; but know, Katerina Ivanovna, that you indeed love only him. And the more he insults you, the more you love him. That is your strain. You precisely love him as he is, you love him insulting you. If he reformed, you would drop him at once and stop loving him altogether. But you need him in order to continually contemplate your high deed of faithfulness, and to reproach him for his unfaithfulness. And it all comes from your pride. Oh, there is much humility and humiliation in it, but all of it comes from pride."
Love
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