Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Purpose, He Man

• The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Secret, Purpose

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

• Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Gentleman

• ... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hard Work, Years, Purpose

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