"In most cases, people, even wicked people,..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.”

“Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.”

“After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.”

“Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.”

“We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.”

“It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.”

“Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.”

“Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.”

“Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.”