52 Quotes About Dostoevsky

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but of its destruction.

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy. They suffer, of course… but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?

Life is now given to man at the cost of pain and fear. Here, they are blinded by this sometimes. Now man is not yet that man. There will be another, new person, happy and proud, and for him it wouldn’t matter the death-life. He who overcomes pain and fear will become God himself. There will not be that God any longer.

В преходните времена тая сган, която я има във всяко общество, се надига, и при това не само че няма никакви цели, но няма дори капка разум и с всички сили изразява единствено тревога и нетърпение. Същевременно тая сган, без да подозира, почти винаги попада под командата на тайфата действащи с определена цел „напредничави“, която пък насочва всичките тия отрепки на обществото натам, накъдето й е угодно, освен ако самата тя не се състои от пълни идиоти, което впрочем също се случва.

And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read.

Парфен, ты давеча спросил меня, вот мой ответ: сущность религиозного чувства ни под какие рассуждения, ни под какие проступки и преступления и ни под какие атеизмы не подходит; тут что-то не то, и вечно будет не то; тут что-то такое, обо что вечно будут скользить атеизмы и вечно будут не про то говорить. Но главное то, что всего яснее и скорее на русском сердце это заметишь, и вот мое заключение! Это одно из самых первых моих убеждений, которые я из нашей России выношу.