#dostoyevsky quote

[academic-vampire]

“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness—a real thorough-going illness.

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky,

Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

[petitjeanofficial]

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[polemicandcontent]

“...And what is it that civilisation softens in us? The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

[academic-vampire]

[academic-vampire]

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

-Soren Kierkegaard

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[polemicandcontent]

“You talk nonsense and are pleased with it; you say impudent things and are in continual alarm and apologising for them. You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself in our good opinion. You declare that you are gnashing your teeth, and at the same time you try to be witty so as to amuse us... you may, perhaps, have really suffered, but you have no respect for your own suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Note from Underground

[polemicandcontent]

“I say, gentlemen, hadn’t we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[eurigmorgan]

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot