To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the crime itself. Murder by legal process is immeasurably more dreadful than murder by a brigand. A man who is murdered by brigands is killed at night in a forest or somewhere else, and up to the last moment he still hopes that he will be saved. There have been instances when a man whose throat had already been cut, was still hoping, or running away or begging for his life to be spared. But here all this last hope, which makes it ten times easier to die, is taken away FOR CERTAIN; here you have been sentenced to death, and the whole terrible agony lies in the fact that you will most certainly not escape, and there is no agony greater than that. Take a soldier and put him in front of a cannon in battle and fire at him and he will still hope, but read the same soldier his death sentence FOR CERTAIN, and he will go mad or burst out crying. Who says that human nature is capable of bearing this without madness? Why this cruel, hideous, unnecessary, and useless mockery? Possibly there are men who have sentences of death read out to them and have been given time to go through this torture, and have then been told, You can go now, you've been reprieved. Such men could perhaps tell us. It was of agony like this and of such horror that Christ spoke. No, you can't treat a mean like that.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: fyodor-dostoevsky the-idiot
Listen, Parfyon, a few moments ago you asked me a question, and this is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to do with any reasoning, or any crimes and misdemeanors or atheism; is is something entirely different and it will always be so; it is something our atheists will always overlook, and they will never talk about THAT. But the important thing is that you will notice it most clearly in a Russian heart, and that's the conclusion I've come to! This is one of the chief convictions I have acquired in our Russia. There's work to be done, Parfyon. Believe me, there's work to be done in our Russian world!
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: fyodor-dostoevsky the-idiot
But people will laugh at all sorts of things.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot
Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others, though you wrote volumes about it and spent thirty-five years in explaining your idea; something will always be left that will obstinately refuse to emerge from your head and that will remain with you for ever and you will die without having conveyed to anyone what is perhaps the most vital point of your idea.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot fyodor-dostoyevsky
We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot fyodor-dostoyevsky
It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the first place, and secondly, Roman Catholicism is even worse than atheism - that's my opinion. Yes, that's my opinion! Atheism merely preaches a negation, but Catholicism goes further: it preaches a distorted Christ, a Christ calumniated and defamed by it, the opposite of Christ! It preaches Antichrist - I swear it does, I assure you it does! This is my personal opinion, an opinion I've held for a long time, and it has worried me a lot myself. ... Roman Catholicism believes that the Church cannot exist on earth without universal temporal power, and cries: Non possumus! In my opinion, Roman Catholicism isn't even a religion, but most decidedly a continuation of the Holy Roman Empire, and everything in it is subordinated to that idea, beginning with faith. The Pope seized the earth, an earthly throne and took up the sword; and since then everything has gone on in the same way, except that they've added lies, fraud, deceit, fanaticism, superstition wickedness. They have trifled with the most sacred, truthful, innocent, ardent feelings of the people, have bartered it all for money, for base temporal power. And isn't this the teaching of Antichrist? Isn't it clear that atheism had to come from them? And it did come from them, from Roman Catholicism itself! Atheism originated first of all with them: how could they believe in themselves? It gained ground because of abhorrence of them; it is the child of their lies and their spiritual impotence! Atheism! In our country it is only the upper classes who do not believe, as Mr Radomsky so splendidly put it the other day, for they have lost their roots. But in Europe vast numbers of the common people are beginning to lose their faith - at first from darkness and lies, and now from fanaticism, hatred of the Church and Christianity!
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot fyodor-dostoyevsky
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: money talent ridiculous the-idiot
You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot fyodor-dostoyevsky prince-myshkin
,, [...] în orice idee genială, ori nouă, sau în orice idee, cât de cât serioasă, ce încolțește în capul unui om, există un ceva care nu se poate comunica altuia chiar dacă ai scrie volume întregi, străduindu-te în fel și chip să explici această idee vreme de treizeci de ani; întotdeauna va rămâne ceva netransmisibil, ceva care, în ciuda străduințelor tale, nu va voi să iasî din cutia ta craniana și va zace mereu acolo, până când nu vei mai fi, fără să fi exprimat sensul major al ideii tale
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: the-idiot
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