Yes, man is broad, too broad, indeed. I'd have him narrower
Fyodor DostoevskyCompasiunea este principala, poate chiar unica lege a existenţei pentru întreaga umanitate.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés idiotul
Laş e acela care se teme şi fuge, acela însă care se teme, dar nu fuge, nu este tocmai un laş.
Fyodor DostoevskyDragostea abstractă pentru umanitate ascunde aproape întotdeauna o iubire egoistă faţă de tine însuţi.
Fyodor DostoevskyOamenii sunt făcuți să se chinuie unii pe alții.
Fyodor DostoevskyDios nos ha enviado a este hombre, aunque lo haya sacado de una orgía.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés compassion suffering white-nights common-humanity
That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could not doubt, nor even admit the possibility of doubt. He felt that they were not analogous to the fantastic and unreal dreams due to intoxication by hashish, opium or wine. Of that he could judge, when the attack was over. These instants were characterized--to define it in a word--by an intense quickening of the sense of personality. Since, in the last conscious moment preceding the attack, he could say to himself, with full understanding of his words: "I would give my whole life for this one instant," then doubtless to him it really was worth a lifetime. For the rest, he thought the dialectical part of his argument of little worth; he saw only too clearly that the result of these ecstatic moments was stupefaction, mental darkness, idiocy. No argument was possible on that point. His conclusion, his estimate of the "moment," doubtless contained some error, yet the reality of the sensation troubled him. What's more unanswerable than a fact? And this fact had occurred. The prince had confessed unreservedly to himself that the feeling of intense beatitude in that crowded moment made the moment worth a lifetime.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives.
Fyodor DostoevskyMots clés life reason living desire
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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 DostoevskyMots clés vanity fyodor-dostoyevsky notes-from-the-underground
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