"For, after all, you do grow up,..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.”
“Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.”
“Life is in ourselves and not in the external.”
More on Growth
“When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.”
“When forms begin to crumble there is always an opportunity for great deepening. By deepening I mean the arising of who you are beyond form.”
“Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.”
More on Ideals
“Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.”
“There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.”
“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.”