Character Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

To be a human is to be destroyed.

— Soe Hok Gie

“The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are…

— Czesław Miłosz

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

— Anton Chekhov

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions -…

— Theodore Dreiser

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

— Nick Vujicic

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

— Louis-Philippe I of France

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

— Henry James

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no…

— Immanuel Kant

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of…

— Mitch Albom

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else…

— Dave Eggers