Fyodor Dostoyevsky Man Quotations

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and painfully as to find someone to worship

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness

If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness

I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born

Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread.

Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.