Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Animal, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  True Friend, Heart, Compassion

• If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dry Up, Continuation Of Life, Literature

• 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

  Talking, Privilege, Nonsense

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• "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 Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Said

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mean, Men, Race

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

• I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Believe, Evil, Normal

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877.

• And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Germany

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