Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.
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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
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Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
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My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.
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I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.
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In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.
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I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.
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Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
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To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.
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You invest in so many little things that accumulate into bigger things
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Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness.
