I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. Auteur: Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Quote More from Fyodor Dostoevsky “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” “In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing t…” “Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; only because of that. It's e…” “For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the at…”