On Humanity:

Dostoevsky: "Man is a living being who walks on two legs, yet is ungrateful."

Nietzsche: "Man is nothing but a being that must be surpassed."

On Life:

Dostoevsky: "Every person in this world must love life, not try to understand it."

Nietzsche: "Life is nothing but a smile on a dead man’s lips."

On Happiness:

Dostoevsky: "I am searching for happiness, but: where is it?"

Nietzsche: "We have invented happiness as an invention."

On Contentment:

Dostoevsky: "At first, they cried; then they adapted and got used to it. Man can adapt to anything… how despicable."

Nietzsche: "In truth, I hate those who see everything as good and this world as the best of worlds. These are merely the contented ones who accept everything and savor it without true taste."

On Reason:

Dostoevsky: "Reason guides me, and that is precisely what has destroyed me."

Nietzsche: "The most deeply rooted beliefs in the mind are those things that seem unbelievable."

On the Heart:

Dostoevsky: "He fell victim to his great belief in the nobility of the human heart."

Nietzsche: "I love only what man has written with his blood… desire runs deeper than heartbreak."

On Homeland:

Dostoevsky: "The days are gone when our parents worried about us abroad. Now, in our estrangement, we fear for them at home."

Nietzsche: "Every homeland has its own hypocrisy, which it calls its virtues. As for its best qualities, it is ignorant of them and refuses to know them."

On Children:

Dostoevsky: "The soul is healed by being with children."

Nietzsche: "No nation can thrive if the roots of its children are corrupted."

On Love:

Dostoevsky: "He loved her greatly but hated that absurd excess in showing emotions. He despised those feelings that resembled the emotions of cattle."

Nietzsche: "There is not enough love and goodness in this world for us to abandon either to imaginary beings."