Quotes from Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

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

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

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

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

Man is bound to lie about himself

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

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

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!