Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

There are No Bad People

"The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight." - Dostoevsky

It is our responsibility as human beings, Dostoyevsky suggests, to peer past the surface insecurities that drive people to lash out and look for the deeper longings, holding up a mirror to one another’s highest ideals rather than pointing the self-righteous finger at each other’s lowest faults. - Maria Popova

Friday, December 23, 2016

Diamonds in the Filth

“A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky