Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Science
  • Discovery
  • Most

• I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Work
  • Money
  • Discovery

• The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Moments
  • Discovery

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Like
  • Discovery
  • Invention

• Sex is a discovery.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Sex
  • Discovery

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mean

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Long
  • Search
  • Questions

• Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Why
  • May

• Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Words
  • Running

• Life is too short to be a boring company.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Life
  • Company
  • Life is

• Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

  

  Leonard Woolf
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Aim

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Feels

• I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Want
  • Discovery
  • Focused

• Life is rarely easy, but, with Christ our King, it is always good.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Life
  • Good
  • King

• I'm always a bit wary when people say in interviews, 'I'm at the happiest place of my life that I've ever been.' I think, 'Really? Are you?' Life is a mix, isn't it?

  

  Ben Miller
  • Life is
  • Interviews
  • Happiest Place

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Recovery
  • Congress
  • Efforts

• There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

  

  Rumi
  • Hope
  • Hurt
  • Medicine

• Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life is
  • Discovery
  • Continuous