Every man has some
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes From The Underground
To care only for
To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man has some
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent … Read more
To be too conscious
To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be acutely conscious
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. Fyodor Dostoevsky
A cultivated and decent
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Suffering is the sole
Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. Fyodor Dostoevsky
One\’s own free unfettered
One’s own free unfettered choice, one’s own caprice-however wild it may be, one’s own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very \”most advantageous advantage\” which we have overlooked, which comes under no classification and against which all systems and theories are continually being shattered to atoms… [an]will attain his object-that is, convince himself … Read more
Perhaps I really regard
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
What man wants is
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. Fyodor Dostoevsky