I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYNothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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