Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Life, Respect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Disease, Consciousness, Genuine

• Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Mind, Consciousness

• What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, Able, Consciousness

• And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Giving Up, Men, Roots

• But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Disease, Facts, Consciousness

• The consciousness of life is higher than life.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Consciousness, Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gary Saul Morson, Kenneth Lantz (2009). “A Writer's Diary”, p.394, Northwestern University Press

• But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Falling In Love, Hate, Feelings

• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sports, Hockey, Suffering

  FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY (1960). “NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR”

• I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Too Much, Consciousness, Sickness

• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, Gone, World

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

• Thus, as a result of heightened consciousness, a man feels as if it's all right if he's bad as long as he knows it- as though that were any consolation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Consciousness

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