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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes about humanity

Russian Novelist, Writer November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881

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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but..."
For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive,..."
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others, though you wrote volumes about it and spent thirty-five years in explaining your idea; something will always be left that will obstinately refuse to emerge from your head and that will remain with you for ever and you will die without having conveyed to anyone what is perhaps the... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human..."
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Money is the honey of humanity."
Money is the honey of humanity. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if..."
If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's human, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive. Fyodor Dostoevsky
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of..."
Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Compassion is the chief law of human existence."
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human..."
Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest. 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! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human 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 them. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering."
It wasn't you I was bowing to, but the whole of human suffering. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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