Showing posts with label The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Idiot-Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Show all posts
May 7, 2011
Odd People
It is not such a very dreadful circumstances that we are odd people, is it? For we really are odd, you know-careless, reckless, easily wearied of anything. We don't look throughly into matters-don't care to understand things. We are all like this-you and I, and all of them!
2 quotes!
- The first qualification for understanding another is Heart.
- It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!
God's ways
We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways.
wart on the nose!
... if you have a wart on your forehead or nose, you imagine that all the world is looking at it, and that people would make fun of you because of it, even if you had discovered America!
Apr 25, 2011
Talent and Money
Gania: Once I am rich, I shall be a genius, an extremely original man. One of the vilest and most hateful things connected with money is that it can buy even talent; and will do so as long as the world lasts.
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