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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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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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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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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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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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
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I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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