Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Men Quotes

Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

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Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

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The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.

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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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Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

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I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

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One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

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There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

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If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

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It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

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Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.

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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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