Humans Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

— 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

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth!…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've…

— 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

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

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

— Fyodor Dostoevsky