"Neither man nor nation can exist without..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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“But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.”
“One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.”
“The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.”
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“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”
“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”