"Let us not forget that the reasons..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
More by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Wealth is the number of things one can do without.”
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”
More on Human Nature
“People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.”
“The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”
“The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.”