Men Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every man needs a place to go to.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... you simply can't imagine what men will say!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

... one could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is bound to lie about himself

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky