Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Humanity, Secret

• The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Deep Thought

  FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOEVSKY (1952). “GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD”

• I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Humanity, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.321, Google Publishing

• The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Humanity, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.128, Clap Publishing, LLC.

• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Order, Humanity

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Idiot”, p.1431, Lulu Press, Inc

• 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.

• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

• In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Humanity, Abstract, Humanitarianism

• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Humanity, Suffering

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