Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881 CE)

"At any rate, civilisation has made man, if not more bloodthirsty, then certainly more hideously and more contemptibly bloodthirsty."

• From Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack (Modern Library, 1992).

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian author, 1821-1881 CE)

"I assure you, gentlemen, that to be too acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."

• From Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack (Modern Library, 1992).

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

"For the direct, the inevitable and the legitimate result of consciousness is to make all action impossible, or--to put it differently--consciousness leads to thumb-twiddling."

• From Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground (chapter V), translated by David Magarshack.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

"All man wants is an absolutely free choice, however dear that freedom may cost him and wherever it may lead him to... Ha-ha-ha! But there's really no such thing as choice."

• From Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground (chapters VII and VIII).

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