Fear of aesthetics is the first sign of powerlessness Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Quote More from Fyodor Dostoevsky “I had come there not only to look at, but also to number myself sincerely and w…” “Les grandes idées sont plutôt le fruit d'un grand coeur que d'une grande intell…” “A man's perishing here, a man's vanishing from his own sight here, and can't co…” “Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.”