"Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

“How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?”

“Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.”

“Wisdom is rooted in watching with affection the way people grow.”

“Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.”

“The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.”

“You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.”

“The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.”

“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”