Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Men, Second Chance

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Possessed: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.238, 谷月社

• Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Blood, Levels

• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

• What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Joy, Humanity, Desire

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.746, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

• No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Devil, Habit

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